The future of Firefox

With the launch of Safari on the iPhone this summer, the more recent release of Opera Mini 4, and all the fuss about the Google Android mobile OS, there's been a lot of mobile browser hype of late. Most of us still browse the Web on our trusty PCs, however. So what's going on for us desktop surfers?

There hasn't been a whole lot of browser news ever since Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2 squared off last October. Last night, Firefox fired the first shot in the next skirmish with the first beta release of Firefox 3.

Never an organization to put marketing deadlines ahead of the product, this beta release was originally expected back in July, but late is better than never. The new Firefox 3 beta 1 release includes some notable security features such as ONE-click Web site verification and automatic testing of outdated plug-ins.

The prerelease also shows off some of the planned personalization features, such as a star button for quickly adding bookmarks and a Smart Places folder with access to frequently visited sites and pages (which sounds quite a bit like the Speed-Dial feature in Opera 9.)

Firefox 3 beta 1 was released to the Mozilla developer community for testing purposes only, but that doesn't mean that anyone can't take a look at the new version. Whenever using beta or prerelease software, we always recommend that you back up your data first.

http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9820775-12.html?tag=nl.e415I may take it for a ride on my Win 2K machine.Ooh, nice.
Stepping up the development cycle a little, aren't they?It looks like Firefox gets slower with a new version:
http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed2007.php
Some more readings:
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9820775-12.html?tag=nl.e415yeah, it looks like their security features are the slowing down culprit~ though with fios it is somewhat not noticed.. I "being not too savy with the browsers" wish someone would tell me how to cancel the *censored* synchroniser pop~up I keep GETTING from firefox?

I bet its from some upgrade/ download I did.... don't know how to get rid of the upgrade thingy ?Pop-up about synchronizing what?t least the gentleman on the test page illustrated the obvious:

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The numerical score generated by this test is relative, meaning that results from different browsers are not comparable between different computers. A comparison between two different computers will have more variables than just javascript ENGINE speed.

More reading:
http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2007/11/22/firefox-3-looks-pretty-foxy/

Firefox hasn't been able to sway me just yet, but I look forward to playing around with the new version.