Sunday, July 12, 2009

Firefox 3.5

I've been using the new Firefox 3.5. It is very fast -- twice as fast as the previous version, and five times as fast as pokey IE 8, though still slower than Safari or Chrome. It has lots of nice new features. My favorite so far is what happens when you create a new tab: you see graphic images of your most visited pages, along with links to your recent bookmarks and your recently closed tabs. Nice.

One word of warning: many of the extensions have not been updated to 3.5 yet. If you use a lot of extensions, or you are dependent upon a few, be patient and wait for them to catch up. Right now, I am missing my mouse gestures, Delicious icons, and the weather toolbar. But if you can do without those, give it a whirl.

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