FireFox 3 Beta Pretty Neat
March 26, 2008

Daring Fireball's recent article on the FireFox 3 beta got me interested enough to give it a try. Wow, I'm glad I did - as its totally replaced FireFox 2 on my Macbook. For me, its main point above all else is the awesomeness of the default theme. I have dislike the way that the default FF2 (really, it is the FF1 default theme with a little icon work) theme held up to the newest wave of operating systems. FF3's theme is definitely a huge improvement.

Stability's definitely good, as I haven't had a single crash in the day or so that I've been using it. I'm also noticing helpful little features here and there, but like other's have said - there are no massive improvements. I'm happy enough - so... thanks for the awesome software!

Update - 2008-03-25

Ok, now that I've spent a bit more time with it I absolutely love it. Oh, that's right. I went there. The URI autocomplete box is revamped now to include titles and favicons which is an awesome feature, the file upload control is now revamped so that you no longer have to find the little "browse" button to pop the browse dialog and the <form> controls now finally use OS native widgets. Hearts!

OnyxRaven 2008/03/25

I just switched over to using 3b4 fulltime at home - I'm going to switch my work pc soon too (though I'll need to figure out how to keep around a working copy of 1.5 and 2 for compatibility checking). Firebug, Greasemonkey, IETab, WebDevToolbar all work, so that makes me happy. Google hasn't updated their browser sync yet to work with ff3 though - and forcing compatibility didnt work either (the bookmark api changed drastically in 3) so that makes me a bit sad - now I have to remember to share myself bookmarks - or start using delicious again.

Andy 2008/03/25

I want to get FF3.0, but I think I'm gonna wait til it's out of Beta first. Looks pretty sweet though.

Brandon Bowman 2008/03/25

Negative, I am a meat popsicle

phantomdata 2008/03/25

OnyxRaven: You should start using delicious again. Vastly superior... or something. It's easy enough to install alongside FF2, just do a "Custom" installation and install it to a different directory. That's one area where IE will never be able to touch FireFox. :)

Brandon Bowman; Corbin Dallas Multipass.

Andy: It's easy enough to install alongside FF2. :_