Firefox 3.5 rc 2: Why I am not so impressed
I decided it was time to see what the developers of Firefox had been doing with my favorite open source browser. There has been quite a bit of hype surrounding this up-coming release. I downloaded it fully expecting to be blown away. The verdict so far? To quote my 14 year old:
“meh”.
Why the near apathetic response? Primarily because this browser is being hyped as “Faster Firefox” with “Amazing feats of speed”. Maybe it was my recent forey into Google Chrome on Linux, but this Firefox doesn’t seem fast. In fact, it seems slower than 3.0. Of course I understand this is a release candidate and I am confident the official release will be much better. But so far, for a release that is getting so much publicity, it doesn’t fit the bill.
This is a .5 release so it’s not considered a “major release”. Because of this I think the developers are trying too hard to play catch up to Chrome. Let’s look at the features:
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