Firefox Me

Just a quick post today about the new Firefox that got released this week. I’ve been a long time user of Mozilla’s Firefox browser and as such have been through the ups and downs of the browser, but I’ve got to say the new Firefox is a great step forward for Mozilla. They’ve worked out a lot of the bugs that annoyed the crap out of me in Firefox 2.0.

For one they’ve managed to get rid of the enormous memory leak situation that would result after having the browser running for an extended period of time with a lot of tabs open. I can’t tell you how annoying it was to leave the browser running for a bit and come back to a slogging PC with almost no ram left on a four gig machine!

Some other things have been sped up as well, such as the interface and streamlined tab launches. They do have some annoying new features though that I promptly turned off. One of them was the url history bar thing – I’m not sure who’s bright idea that was, but seriously was that really needed? I think not.

Overall I’ve got to give the new browser a huge thumbs up for stability, ease of use, and down right superiority over most all other browsers, with the exception of maybe the new Opera release. Firefox definitely stands out in a crowd of losers. Go get your copy of it today.