Ever since I downloaded the Firefox 3 beta on my new PC a few weeks ago, I have been eagerly waiting for the final Firefox 3  for my laptop(which is what I use most of the time). Lot of people have had lot of problems with Firefox 2.x, but I had just one - MEMORY LEAKS!!! I keep open a lot of tabs and the memory used would skyrocket like inflation. Firefox 3 is said to have solved all those and much more. While I will take another few days for a more detailed feedback on Firefox 3, here is a recap as of now.

  • UI and the new look and feel is good
  • While some extensions aren’t yet compatible with Firefox 3 yet, I believe the browser will constantly check for compatible ones from you previous list of extensions and prompt periodically.
  • I like the One-Click Bookmarking.

Of course, you can take a look at the new features here.

Other good to read article on Firefox 3 & Extensions around the blogosphere:

Five Extensions You Won’t Need with Firefox 3

Methods to work around the compatibility checks(forced compatibility)

2 Responses to “Firefox 3 is here”

  1. Do you use Greasemonkey? I wrote a timesaver plugin for that. What it did: Select words on a webpage and hit Alt-G, it’ll search Google for the selected words in the background. Hit Alt-A and it’ll do the same for Amazon. Neat stuff, that Greasemonkey.

  2. Not yet…will try it out sometime

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