Firefox 3 - Awesome!

If I was to sum up Firefox 3 in a single word it would be “awesome”.  That is not an overstatement either, only perhaps an understatement.  Although I consider Firefox to be the best web browser, I can also be critical of it - especially in terms of performance.  It has truly been worth the wait as in this release thare are some much needed improvements.

The speed of Firefox has been improved vastly.  Page rendering times, switch between tabs, open menus, improved speed of javascript and the general application speed - especially after it has been open for a few hours.

Dealing with addons has been improved: it is now possible to search for extensions from within Firefox addons dialogue without the need visit the main site and search.

The zoom functionhas also been improved when zooming a page now the images increase in size as well as text.  This is useful for when viewing websites where text and images are both ridiculously small.  It’s still possible to zoom on text only too though.

It’s now possible to choose Yahoo! Mail as the default email client.  It’s a shame that Gmail is not a choice but this can be easily changed through the use of greasemonky scripts.

Overall, it’s a vast improvement and I can now say goodbye to Opera!