Wednesday November 21, 2007
Firefox 3 Beta 1, and dicovering Fireshot
Today, I installed the first beta release of Firefox 3. Very happy! Over 300 memory leaks fixed! It’s certainly performing better than Firefox 2. I’ve been hitting it hard all day and memory usage still hasn’t gone over 80MB.
I’ll be looking more closely at the changes to the rendering engine and CSS support when I have the time. There are some interesting functional updates around the browser as well: the ability to “star” pages, for instance; and the new “Places” section of bookmarks which attempts to make your more habitual browsing easier to get back to.
Very few of my favoured extensions are available for this beta release at this stage (it’s only been a few hours :-) so I went trawling for extensions that were v3-ready and made discovered Fireshot. Take screenshots and then annotate them What more could a web developer ask for? This one gets a big thumbs up.
Also due for special mention today is the Router Status extension
Filed by Jachin Sheehy under Software Development
Sheesh! Almost a month ago too! How could i have missed this :( shoots off to dl Maybe you can use your influence over at FT to get the FF download banner up again. I remember seeing it up there in the early days of the present design.
I toyed with the idea of getting it. Since you seem to be having such a wonderful experience, it’s time for me to be paranoid no more.