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First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
DaMan writes "ZDNet takes Firefox 3.0 beta 2 for a spin and draws some conclusions that should be sweet music to Mozilla's ears.
"Beta 2 feels snappier and far more responsive than beta 1 (or Firefox 2.0 for that matter) and I can feel the difference on all the systems that I've tried it on — from a lowly Sempron system to my quad-core monsters. No matter what you want doing — opening a new tab, moving tabs, opening up Find, zooming in and out of the page, bookmarking — it all happens swiftly and smoothly. What surprises me about the Firefox 3.0 beta is how many memory leaks that Mozilla have fixed. Complaints of memory leaks with Firefox 2.0 were met with an attitude of "Leaks? What leaks?" Considering that there have been more than 300 leaks plugged, it's obvious that past versions leaked like sieves.""
It (perhaps) seems a little faster than 2.0.0.11, but I haven't done anything "strenuous" with it yet, nor did I ever really see any problems with memory being gobbled by Firefox, so I can't tell the difference. I REALLY can't tell the difference because all of my themes, extensions and bookmarks, etc. seem to be working fine (miracle of miracles), automatically, but they've also not changed the version when you go to Help->About Mozilla Firefox.
Hell, if I were coding this stuff, I'd change the version number before I'd made any code changes, just for the hell of it!
Software issues aside, when are you going to spring for at least a 700MHz machine? 266MHz were old 5 years ago.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 does not support Acid 2. Here's proof (tested on an i686 machine).
He is a volunteer, right? Then what they do is a gift from their heart, not a job. Stop expecting perfection, and sit down and think how you can help these people improve your software.