Firefox 3 Beta 5 is Beautiful
Posted by geetarista April 04, 2008
I have been watching the progress of Firefox 3 and I have been very happy with the results. Since the 5th beta was recently released, I decided that it was time to take the plunge and try it out.
The most important thing that I have been waiting for are improvements in speed and memory use. I use Firefox for almost everything, so it can get pretty heavy when I’ve got 50 tabs open and trying to do so many things. Since switching over to beta 5, everything in Firefox has been so much faster! Usually when I start opening a lot of tabs, Firefox gets real slow and I have to wait before opening the next tab. Now I can just keep opening tabs without any lag whatsoever. Since the JavaScript engine was improved as well, almost every website that I visit has had noticeable speed gains.
I really love everything else about Firefox 3 and I think that it will be a great step for Mozilla. There are so many changes and improvements that I would not even possibly begin talking about them. The only issue I have so far is that half of my plug-ins do not work, but I’ll just have to wait for those plug-in developers to get up to speed. Overall, I think Firefox 3 is going to blow away Internet Explorer even more than it already does.
