Five Things I Love About Firefox 3


	Five Things I Love About Firefox 3

Sheroug

4-11-2008 3:46 AM

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firefox, mozilla, internet

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4-11-2008 8:41 AM

spinmonkey

I even loaded mine down with a ton of extensions just to test it and it's still fast as hell. (3.0b5)

4-11-2008 5:00 PM

n2sooners

I may have to check it out. I haven't used Firefox in a while.

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