Fantastic Firefox 3 Beta 2 on MacOS X

December 22, 2007

Fantastic Firefox 3 Beta 2 on MacOS X

I’ve been playing around with Firefox 3 Beta 2 on my MacBook Pro. Excellent browser so far. The Proto theme looks nice and solid, but the main thing is: Version 3 feels much faster than 2. The rendering is faster as is the user interface. And they took the url completion from Opera, one of the things I really like about Opera (my current browser). One other thing which moved me to Opera are the memory leaks with FF (which have gotten much better with FF3 too). So Firefox 3 might win me back. Only missing the splendid bookmark bar syncing in Opera. It just works from home to work while the Google FF plugin for bookmark syncing is awful.

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Who cares about Firefox if there is a good product from Steve!

December 26th, 2007

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