I played with the proof-of-concept page... it's done through flash... gee, how novel.

Pundits report that to prevent being "clickjacked", you need to either use the 'noscript' extension, disable flash, javascript and your brain, or use lynx, a text only browser usually found on linux systems.

I found that 'flashblock', an extension I use on all my systems, thwarts it very well. If the flash can't execute, it can't do bad things. Since I use it already, it's not something else to install and slow down things with. Besides, it's been reported on CNN and MSNBC websites... why would I go to THOSE places?

My advice? Install 'flashblock' for firefox, don't visit questionable websites. Pretty simple. Oh yeah, and try to avoid the herd mentality.

Thought the rest of you might want to try it and see if it helps your experiences with FF3.

There are several bug reports concerning heavy drive thrashing and slow operation. These all boil down to the way FF3 is handling some data.

To help people identify Phishing sites, forgeries (phorgeries?), and general ickiness, FF3 contacts Google.com for EVERY http request. EVERY REQUEST

It then saves the results into 'urlclassifier3.sqlite' in your profile.

This file grew to more than 50MB at which point I read that you could 'vacuum' it using 'sqlite3' to drop the unused database entries. I did this, it shrank to 33MB, a savings of 17MB... but the thrashing continued.

If you will disable the Google checks, then exit FF3 and delete the 'urlclassifier3.sqlite' file from your profile, your FF3 experience will be much nicer, albeit at the expense of some assistance in Phish Site Phinding. (mmm, Ben & Jerry's Phish Food Ice Cream...)

Turn off these two options: (under preferences)

Security -> "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected Attack site"
Security -> "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery"

Close the preferences window, exit Firefox, then delete the 'urlclassifier3.sqlite' file:

rm .mozilla/firefox/*/urlclassifier3.sqlite

The file WILL be recreated upon the next start of Firefox3, but it's only 32KB in size, and isn't expected to grow since the two "Tell me" options are off.

It's made a world of difference in the browsing experience for me.

Hopefully this helps others.

Of course, did the fight with the extensions, had to lose a couple, realized I didn't use them really at all, so wasn't a big loss, found a few others providing nice features too.

AdBlock Plus for sure, Forecastbar for weather, Web Developer, Flashblock and FlashGet are pretty much standard fare on all my systems. Others loaded for specific purposes as needed. Found a nice theme too, KDE4+FF3. Pretty!

Anyways, I did my part, downloading the new .bz2 for each computer, so that's three votes from me. It's almost 9am (CDT), and their download counter shows 6.6million++... so they've beat their 1.6M record handily.

It's like Christmas this week... Firefox 3.0 yesterday (Tuesday, 17 June) and OpenSUSE 11.0 on Thursday, 19 June. Ktorrent is idling, all warmed up, waiting for the signal to begin the heavy pulling of the install DVD/CD's.

I used to use Azureus, then realized I didn't use it but once or twice a month (if that!) and Ktorrent had an update that improved it substantially. So AZ went away. I lean on Usenet pretty heavily anymore anyways. (More on that later)

Yes, I ramble... is that bad?',