I've been playing with Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 at home. The feature list that I saw circulating on the yet was actually kind of a yawner, IMO, but I have to say there are a couple things that I absolutely love about it.
1) It is really, really fast. Pages render extremely quickly and the application itself starts extremely fast. This feature alone makes me stop using old versions of Firefox.
2) When you start typing a URL, you are greeted not by a lame combo box style drop down of your URL history, but with this excellent piece of UI:
Once again, it is a little tiny thing, but it is really a huge improvement over the old style combo box. It is much easier to pick out the URL that you are looking for, and as a result, what used to be a useless distraction becomes a useful shortcut.
3) It is currently called 'Minefield', but it is really pretty darn high quality. I have had very few problems using it as my everyday browser. It downloads an update seemingly every day, which is also great, since I am beta testing.
Where did you get that version? I only see Beta 1 listed which doesn't have that new UI feature. Thx!
Posted by: Scott Fitchet | December 12, 2007 at 08:28 PM