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March 13, 2008
Fun with the Firefox 3 Beta 4
We've been playing with the Firefox 3 Beta 4 release since it came out a few days ago, and we're seriously impressed. While Mozilla recommends only developers or testers download it, we've found it impressively stable, and it co-exists (on the Windows platform, but not in Linux or the Mac) with version 2.
The interface is cleaner, the old Firefox memory problems have been ironed out, security has been vastly improved and tests indicate it's much faster (three times faster on some tasks than Firefox 2, and five times faster than Windows Explorer).
And there's an impressive list of new features among the 900 enhancements since the last beta.
Anyone else tried it?
Posted by cw at March 13, 2008 09:08 AM
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If feels faster compared to my fox 2 (with over the top number of extensions). I'm using the portable variant.
Posted by: Ananda Sim at March 15, 2008 10:52 PM
I have tried Firefox 3 Beta 4, it has a different feel to the old Firefox, and it actually feels quicker. I have noticed that the memory leaks have gone; no longer opening more than two tabs causes a memory problem. Firefox has done a great job, and I can't wait till it is fully released. Firefox is my favourite browser by far, and this upcoming release will only strengthen that.
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at March 16, 2008 09:14 PM
Charles, it's actually quite easy to have Fx2 and 3 co-exist on the Linux platform too (no idea about OSX). The main thing is to keep your Fx2 profile separate as using it with Fx3 may render it un-usable back in Fx2. There's no reason why you can't make a copy of the Fx2 profile to use in Fx3 either.
Posted by: Matt at March 17, 2008 10:27 AM
It's faster than v2.xxx
Google toolbar is broken .. use the firefox one
It's good. Like it
Posted by: John Smith at March 28, 2008 05:40 PM