My thoughts on…Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
As you should all know, I’m a big Firefox fan. I’m grateful to the Mozilla Foundation for removing me from the Microsoft Matrix by pulling my head out of Bill Gates’ ass. Now I spread the gospel of Firefox wherever I go, especially on campus, where the students are surprisingly lacking in tech savvy. I’m even using it right now. So I have been eagerly awaiting the release of Firefox 3, which should be released in early 2008.
I was impressed with Firefox 2, so I can’t wait to see how much better Firefox can become. Although I haven’t gotten my hands on Gran Paradiso (the codename for the beta), I have gotten information from reliable sources about the improvements and new features. It promises to have improves security features (as if it wasn’t secure enough), greater ease of use, even more personalization, improved graphics and font rendering and improved performance.
But let’s talk about the part we really care about: the speed. Beta 2 is more streamlined and uses less memory than Firefox 2. And it moves noticeably faster than Internet Explorer 7. Finally! I can point and laugh at IE users again! Another feature that I like is the download manager, which resembles that of a BitTorrent client, which I really like. Bookmarks are now called “Places,” and there’s a star in the Location Bar near the go arrow, which I’m assuming allows you to automatically bookmark the present site. Interested? Wikipedia’s got a beautiful screenshot of it. Though cosmetically it greatly resembles Firefox 2, it’s not like that’s a bad thing, as Firefox looks great as it is. While posting this, I dug around the Mozilla website deep enough to get my hands on Pre-Beta 3. Looks like Mozilla gave me an early Christmas present.
I too am grateful for having been rescued from mic.ro.soft.
I look forward to it. The only problem I have with firefox is that it automatically updates itself like every tuesday afternoon and twice of Fridays. Pain in the butt.
i’ve tried it out as well, can’t wait for the full release
I like firefox too!!!….but the US governement agency I work for is using internet explorer. I hate internet explorer.
Gates’s still got mi by mi non-existent cojones, but somehow am feelin’ no pain for all that — maybe it’s cos they’re non-existent …
Firefox is my new love since I got over IE.
I’m a firefox convert myself! Looking forward to see what 3.0 has to offer.
I haven’t used IE in about 5 years or so. I just love Firefox!!
I stopped using IE years ago. I used Opera until Firefox came up. I only use Firefox now but I like the new Flock 1.0 especially the integration with Facebook, twitter and stuff.