Mozilla lets out Firefox 3.0 second beta
While Opera attempts to administer the legal smackdown on Microsoft, Mozilla’s letting testers and developers have an early Christmas present – Firefox 3.0’s second beta.
There’s quite an impressive feature list for this iteration, including better integration with Vista, Linux and OS X. Considering how much more a resource hog the current version is, it’d be a relief if Firefox could return to being the lean, mean machine it was.
Addressing security concerns, Firefox 3.0 promises better malware protecion, tighter restrictions on site-specific content and ‘better presentation of website identity and security’. That last bit, as quoted in the announcement seems a little vague. Better presentation? Someone buy the Mozilla’s documentation writers a new thesaurus. Please.
Some features like the ‘richer personalization’ can best be translated as more ways to work with bookmarks. There’s one-click bookmarking, smart bookmark folders (is there such a thing as stupid bookmark folders? Never mind) and a location bar that changes with your history and bookmarks.
What would be nice is Mozilla addressing the ‘bloat’ that is plaguing Firefox at the moment. Features at the price of performance? There’s a name for that and it’s spelled V-I-S-T-A.
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December 20th, 2007
john from mozilla here — we’ve done a lot to address memory issues in firefox 3 — beta 2 is much better than beta 1 (and than firefox 2), and beta 3 will be even better. lots of posts about the memory work going on — you should try it and see how it feels to you. these features haven’t been added at the expense of memory increases; quite the opposite.
December 20th, 2007
hey guys, check out this list of best applications for 2007 here Firefox is subtly mentioned in the description header.
Even with all these bugs, I still love Firefox to death and I don’t know what I’d do without it. But thanks for the update on, well, the update!
April 10th, 2008
I use a new browser called Enigma. You can obtain it for free at http://store.democratz.org
You can find the link to obtain it just above the products section.
Enigma runs faster than Firefox and does not take up too much memory like Firefox, Opera, or Safari. I have 35 windows open right now and it runs fast.
I have stopped using Firefox, K-Meleon, Opera, Internet Explorer, each of which take up too much memory and do not run as fast as Enigma.