I’ve been testing Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 today. To
make sure it wouldn’t overwrite my existing installation of Firefox 2, I
installed the portable edition which can be downloaded from here.
Firefox 3 is all that you have probably read already. It is
much faster than 2.0. It has some nice new
features which make it a more usable browser and it has some nice security
features which should make your browsing experience safer.
The features I like the best on the new Firefox are the redesign
memory management and the faster execution of JavaScript. By their nature, Web
2.0 websites relied heavily on JavaScript. So these website perform incredibly
better in Firefox 3. As many of you know, I created PhotoPoints. I’m in the process of
slowly recoding PhotoPoints and make it a Web 2.0 site. So I was looking
forward to Firefox 3 and see how the new site will perform. It makes a huge
difference.