FireFox 3 beta

Posted on April 15th, 2008, by Steve Babigian

Rhode Island Tech Advice

Just wanted to say how much I'm loving FF3. If you haven't yet checked it out, go for it. The latest beta update of Firebug (my fav ff extension) is now playing with FF3 rather nicely.

-k00k

Comments

matt.gillooly

Submitted on April 15th, 2008 - 8:26pm link

Yeah, I'm liking it a lot, too. Biggest problem so far has been TurboTax Online refusing to let me in, despite claiming to support FF 1.2 and up (or something like that).

FireBug and AdBlock Plus seem to be doing okay, and I'm not missing any of my other addons enough to care. I thought I'd really miss the del.icio.us addon, but it hasn't been as much of a nuisance as I expected... besides, I'm sure it'll get updated relatively soon.

JackTemplin

Submitted on April 17th, 2008 - 2:58pm link

Firefox 3 beta and Safari 3.1 are so much faster than their predecessors they feel like a whole new ballgame. I think this new generation is going to seal web applications' victory over their desktop brethen.

And I'm starting to understand why Apple ported Safari to Windows - if they can maintain anything close to their current performance lead over IE, they could gain some real marketshare. (the best of the new Safari though is that it's headed for the iPhone too)

For the first time in a long while, browsers are interesting again.