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Firefox 3.5

Downloaded the new cut of Firefox at work today (very old, RAM-challenged box).

Took a long time (five minutes?) to fully install, but right now, very happy.

Nothing bad has happened, and one good thing has happened: It's more stable.

I run Firefox pretty hard on my (work) 512k, 5-year-old system, and I usually have 3-5 (Firefox) restarts per day. In particular, when McAfee updates (daily), it chokes Firefox.

Since installation, no crashes - slight slowdown on the McAfee update.

Some small changes (porn mode, certificate notification in location bar and so on) in this release, but nothing really big (to me).

I downloaded hoping for stability, and I thinks I gots same.

Update 7/1/2009: Approximately two (biz) days since installation; no crashes/restarts. Often got CPU challenged, but recovered. So far, good update.

Update 7/2/2009: Still no crashes. Worst issue is a little hang (sometimes) when typing in a URL.

Update 7/14/2009: Finally sorta died; restarted. I went from 2-5 crashes a day to one in two weeks. Again, I run browsers hard -- on crappy computers -- but that's a HUGE improvement. Kudos to the Firefox team.