CNET: Firefox 3 is the best compared to IE 8, Opera 9.5, Safari
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Firefox 2 was a good browser but it still had some problems like memory usage, frequent crashes and others. In some cases Firefox used to occupy nearly half a gigabyte of RAM, when some use 1 or 2 GB RAM for their computer this memory usage becomes unacceptable.
The new browser Firefox 3 beta 4 seems to have fixed this problem, it occupies only 120MB of RAM far less, which is still high but comparable to other browsers. The new Firefox has an improved user interface, valuable security additions, much faster JavaScript, and, complies with the latest web development standards. It has excellent bookmarking features to organize your bookmarks. It has a star at the URL link, which allows one click bookmarking, no need to access the browser menus. The new URL bar is another novel feature, it helps avoid phishing. For example if the link you enter doesn’t belong to the actual site (say for example eBay), it will show where exactly it is located at the URL, so you can avoid visiting those sites. When you visit Hubpages.com, you will see their logo at the top left in the URL bar. Here is an example below, the big letter will help you what the actual site is in the form of big buttons:
Also, when you start entering addresses, it gives various suggestions just below the URL, so you can choose one of those options instead of typing the whole address. The new add-ons feature is also very good; you can search for compatible add-ons right in the browser itself, without the need to visit the Mozilla site.
To know more about the newer features here is a good review with pictures about Firefox 3 browser.
Cnet says in the end, Firefox remains the best browser on the whole, with great features, impressive improvements all-round, a revised bookmarking system and thousands of add-ons to make it easy to perfectly customize.
The improvements in performance are stellar, it's got some well-integrated features than everyone will use (resumable download manager, tag-ready bookmarking) and it offers, overall, a better, richer Web experience.
I have been using Firefox 3 for the past few days, I am very happy with it. You can see the difference right away, it is faster than the previous version Firefox 2 but also IE 7 and other browsers. Not many extensions are available now for the new Firefox 3 but once you use it, you will find it hard to go back to other versions.
Do you feel the same about Firefox 3 Beta 4?
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MrMarmalade please do, it is amazingly fast and won't crash your computer. Everyday I am finding new features in it, it will take some time to understand the benefits.
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MrMarmalade says:
4 months ago
I have enjoyed Firefox for some time I will try it out.
Thanks for this excellent information