Firefox 3 is being released later today. This Webmonkey article urges us all to download it immediately. The article lists a number of new features that sound pretty good - including the ability to click on a mailto link and have it open Gmail (or whatever) instead of a desktop mail client. And the ability to work offline with online apps, syncing up when you next go online. All pretty cool if you're making a move towards online apps.
But what scares me is that I downloaded Firefox 3 beta for the mac a couple of weeks ago and did not have a good experience - the mac didn't seem to like it at all, with kernel panics, freezes, shutdown woes and cpu running at 50% with no apps open. I ended up doing a restore with Time Machine (which works great, by the way, and only took an hour to restore a 60 GB system; the downside to doing too many of these is that the next TimeMachine backup after a restore takes a while because it backs up everything again, taking up another 60 GB of my backup drive).
So someone with a Mac running Leopard - test Firefox 3 for me and let me know if it's safe to go in the water again.
Comments (2)
I just downloaded it so I'll try it out and let you know what I think.
Posted by Mike | June 17, 2008 9:05 AM
Posted on June 17, 2008 09:05
I am not able to comment on the mac side of thing but 3.0 for windows has not failed me in the last 4 hours.
Actually the interface looks a lot like Flock.
Posted by James | June 19, 2008 3:50 PM
Posted on June 19, 2008 15:50