My Thoughts On FireFox3

Friday, June 20th, 2008
by Mark

Yes, that’s right - I am actually going to be writing a post about my thoughts on FireFox 3!

My first thoughts were the fact that the installation was rather… old looking - and I thought that it was going to be a lot more intuitive than previous installation versions. But it did install without any issues (even on VISTA!).

My next thought was that it loaded up a hell of a lot faster than previous versions of FireFox - which I thought was pretty awesome.

After loading it up - I thought wow, it looks really nice & clean. With previous versions of FireFox I thought it looked rather cluttered and bulky. I also fell in love with the “bookmark this page” even though I prefer to use my own custom PHP generated homepage, I still liked this feature.

For me the loading time of pages is extensively faster than Internet Explorer - although they still have that nasty “render while loading” effect - where you seen like it put the page together. I hate that, I would much prefer it to just….. wait for it all to download and then show me the page. But, at the speed that FireFox 3 actually loads the page, what have I got to complain about?

Switching between tabs seems a lot speedier than with previous versions of FireFox and also with Internet Explorer - but maybe that is just my imagination - who knows!

Anyway, I hear that Tribe over at SlashSwirl.info is going to be making a blog post about his thoughts on FireFox 3 and is also going to be posting a top 5 list of Addons for FireFox in the near future - be sure to check that out!

- M, Jibber Jabber for life!