I downloaded a copy of Firefox 3 (beta) for linux earlier this evening to see how it was. I’ve been having very annoying issues with Firefox 2 on Ubuntu locking up randomly, so I was hoping to see if the new version would help.
Unfortunately there isn’t an official Ubuntu release as yet, but you can easily use the standard download for linux.
I’m trying desperately to be impressed and find something to “wow” about, but so far it’s left me completely underwhelmed.
If anything its “enhancements” are simply annoying.
They’re mostly aesthetic and may simply be a case of them being different to what I’m used to.
As you start typing in an address into the toolbar it tries to “suggest” addresses from your “history” but in so doing it takes up loads of screen estate and invariably gets it wrong.
Of course it’s a beta release, so you’d have to be really dumb to expect it to work properly! Beta software is meant to have bugs. Ideally they should be squashed before the software is made available to the general public.
Whether I’ll keep playing around with this version or revert to the older one is something I’m not 100% sure about just yet.. We’ll see
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