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Firefox 3 making online life much nicer

24 March 2008 - 9:32am — Laura Scott
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Today I downloaded and installed Firefox 3 Beta 4. I could not do it before, but now that the Web Developer tools are updated and Firebug has a 1.1 beta that works in FF3, that's enough for me.

I don't know about you, but on both Macs I use regularly, Firefox 2 was crashing all the time. Last night, while writing a blog post for BlogHer, my browser crashed at least a dozen times. On my Mac Pro, Firefox completely melted down -- twice -- requiring complete rebuild from the start, manually adding one plug-in at a time. But I had to stick it out because I need those developer tools. I cannot imagine working without Firebug.

The new UI is clean, and seems to take up a bit less space. And so far FF3 is fast. Me likes.

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25 March 2008 - 8:14am — anonymous pattern (not verified)

ff3 is definitely looking

ff3 is definitely looking pretty solid. the only problem i've had so far is that it revs the fan up on my macbook to like >7000 rpm and over 80°c. needless to say, i'm waiting it out for the final version

25 March 2008 - 5:16pm — Laura Scott

I wonder if that's from a

I wonder if that's from a plug-in. I'm seeing less processor activity and a much more solid and stable operation now.