In the last weeks I’ve had a few crash problems with Firefox 2, so I decided to try the latest release of Firefox, Firefox 3 beta 4. After that, I removed Firefox 2 from my MacBook 
photo credit: flod
I think I installed too many plugins, and I wasn’t able to choose the one to uninstall, so I decided to get rid of them all 
So i downloaded Firefox 3: it’s really a good piece of work. Being a Mac user, it’s incredible the difference of look-and-feel between version 2 and the newest 3. Here are the things that impressed me:
- The Firefox 3 interface is perfectly integrated in Mac OS X.. finally Firefox doesn’t seem to come from Mars, but has a great integration with the OS.
- The Download Manager is better organized than the previous one. The same goes for the add-on management.
- The new Bookmarks manage is so nice!
- The intellingent URL bar, that remembers the most visited URLs.
- It’s way lighter and faster than FF2
- It has a great brand-new zoom
- It’s possible to scoll the pages even if the FF window is inactive, using the mouse wheel!
- A new chapter of “The book of Mozilla“.. type about:mozilla in the URL bar
- A useful “highlight” function in the Search interface, useful to highlight all the word occor
- A new anti-fraud function that gives the opportunity to verify the identity of the website via Verisign.. very useful with sites like Ebay.
You can’t use all the FF 2 extensions, it will take some time. I noticed that some of the working addons are Greasemonkey, StumbleUpon toolbar, the Developer toolbar.. unfortunately not the Google toolbar and Firebug 
..we’ll just have to wait some time!
March 26th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
You can try this method to install some of the FF2 addons for FF3 beta:
http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/03/how-to-install-delicious-extension-in.html
March 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Nice hack, thanks for the tip
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
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