Firefox 3 – First Look review
With Firefox 3.0 now reaching Release Candidate stage is it stable enough to warrant upgrading or should you hold fire? We tested it against Firefox 2.0 on the Mac and IE7 on the PC to find out.
Against Firefox 2.0
A quick install over the previous version and away you go. The update will simply work instead-of, rather than as-well-as, and all cookies, bookmarks and previously installed plugins “will” work. We say “will”, as at the time of writing you’ll probably find that your favourite plugins aren’t compatible with FF3.0. Out of the ones I personally run, only the eBay companion updated and loaded.
Once you’re set-up, it is business as normal with a massive speed increase over previous versions. We haven’t benchmarked it (it isn’t the final version), but it is as fast if not faster than Safari 3.0 on the Mac. Since the launch of the latest version of Apple’s browser, we had found ourselves using it when on a datacard as Firefox 2.0 is incredibly slow, and now Firefox 3.0 puts a stop to that.
Beyond speed there are a few other nifty features to note.
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