Mozilla Firefox 3.0 beta 5 is out (portable version), and it’s better than ever. I haven’t used my still-installed 2.x version for weeks now.
While many of Firefox 3’s new features are mostly of interest to web developers, “the rest of us” can also find much to like in it. It’s faster, takes up less memory, looks better, seems incredibly to be more stable than the stable version (!), and I love the new URL bar, where you can start typing something and it usually suggests what you want after just a few characters. In Firefox 2 you had to start typing from the beggining of an URL (which is always the hostname), but now you can type any part of URLs (including paths after the hostname), site names, and it also looks through your bookmarks, so it can work even if you’ve just cleared your browsing history.
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I love it, but the lack of google toolbar is KILLING me. The lack of plug ins is annoying as well. I am about to go back to 2.XXX