Comments on: Firefox 3 Early Review

By: Bithead

Bithead — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:27:04 +0000

I was using a number of plugs on V2, that won't work in the new version... FasterFox being among them.

As a result I found the response times a tad slower, which actually speaks well of the newer version, since FasterFox was such a kick in the raster.

I run a multi-screen system, and generally blog with at least two windows open, two tabs each, so Firefox gets a pretty intense workout each day. Hasn't crashed, so far. I'll have a better idea I suppose once my other plugs come online.

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:46:31 +0000

Gmail and Google Reade appear to load faster (but that may be the power of suggestion).

I am still having the YouTube problems I mentioned a while back in a different thread about Firefox.

By: Arguing with signposts

Arguing with signposts — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:26:26 +0000

I downloaded an earlier beta and it was a marked improvement in speed over 2.whatever on my Mac. Overall, I'm pleased, and the add-ons are getting updated pretty quickly. Most of mine were updated before today's "official" release.

By: BigFire

BigFire — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:39:41 +0000

The Google Browser Sync has been dropped as a product by Google. They'll continue to support it until the end of the year for 2.0.

Yeah, it's time for me to look for alternative. The only must have extension that hasn't been updated yet is All-In-One Mouse Gesture, which can be hacked into working easy enough.

By: Chris Lawrence

Chris Lawrence — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:18:03 +0000

I've been living without Google Browser Sync for a while since I've been running nightly builds as my primary browser, but I miss it - Mozilla Labs has an extension called "Weave" that's designed to do the same things, but it's never really worked right for me on OS X.