I wasn’t sure I would like all the changes – some of them are a bit radical. But still, I love it.
Let me count the ways:
- Love the new look of the toolbars. When I first saw them, I said: “sweeeeeeet!”
- The new bookmark system (now a database not just a flat file) is soooo nice. I love new ways to organize my stuff!
- Holy crap the new version is FAST! Gmail, Google Docs, and other Javascript-heavy pages load like they never did before. Even the WordPress “Write Post” page loads faster (in retrospect I guess it uses Javascript, too)
- The location bar (a.k.a. address bar, a.k.a. “awesome bar”) is very nice. I wasn’t sure if I would like it – it will take some getting used to – but I think it and I are going to be best friends!
- That new “zoom” feature is unreal. That’s the way zoom should have always worked!
- Starts up soooo much faster – not that I close Firefox very often during my day, but still…
That’s just a small sample of what I love about Firefox 3. Why don’t you download it yourself today and find out what you love about it? Trust me – it’s worth it!
huh? look at the snapshot of ff vs safari both running on a macbook pro.
wtf? ff is a resource hog – cpu usage: ff 20% vs safari 0%; memory: ff 180M vs safari 27M …
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
1392 Safari 0.0% 0:12.93 6 120 323 18.4M 18.1M 27.1M 261M
609 firefox-bi 20.0% 2:21:08 15 252 3636 354M 55.6M 180M 643M
I suspect you have a rouge add-in. My Firefox does not consume that much CPU time when it is just sitting there idle.
I can’t speak for Safari; I refuse to use it.
I saw, a few weeks ago, a speed test done by lifehacker. Here’s the link:
http://lifehacker.com/396048/speed-testing-the-latest-web-browsers
And let’s not forget that Firefox is the only major browser that is truly OPEN SOURCE. I suppose I should’ve added that to my list of “how do I love thee.” For me, at least, that’s why I choose Firefox over, say, Opera or Safari.