Coopjust

The "awesomebar" (that's the nickname for it...) sucks, get the oldbar extension to restore the addressbar from FF1/FF2.

If I'm reading this correctly, after user protest Mozilla decided to hide the home button only when your Bookmarks are open on the left side for Firefox 3 Beta 4. If you don't have bookmarks open, from FF3b4 on it should display the home button as it was.

Coopjust

Ugh, I'm trying IE8B1 in a Virtual machine. It's unusable. Cool design tweaks, but this isn't a Google style "beta by name only"; it has bugs to work out. But it is a beta and it does pass the Acid2 Browser Standards Compliance test, so Microsoft has definitely made progress.

EngineersRkool

Thank you Coop. Yeah, everything seems to be working fine now in beta 4. They changed the navigation arrow and made it lot better than beta 3. The awesome bar was anything but awesome, lol.

utkarshmn

The search in beta 4 is a bit buggy.

And talking about IE.
If i took 4x hours to install IE, i have only used it for x hours.

friedrice

OPERA is the best!!!!

tomatoking

I'm using firefox 3 beta 5,now. doesn't use as much memory as 2.0.It's aesthetically pleasing,too.much more than firefox 2.0,unless you have add ons.

ie is horrible. don't use it.

BCEagle91

Coopjust wrote:

> Images, FF3 and IE7 are on par.

I just ran my jpeg suite against IE and it came in at 6407 milliseconds. FF 3.0 Beta 5 came in at 4076 milliseconds.

BCEagle91

The technical details on the Firefox memory improvements in FF3 are at pavlov.net

ajetony24

Firefox is worlds better than IE for many, many reasons
I am a user than usually has 10+ tabs open, and firefox handles a large amount of tabs much better (and faster) than IE
The design is very simple, and you don't need to install a million different toolbars to have it the way you like it
One of my favorite features is how you can add multiple search engines to the top right search box
IE may have some (or all, I haven't even used IE in over a year, so I have no idea what the current feature set is), but firefox is a better, faster, more secure browser. One of the best features is how it installs updates on the fly, quickly. Once every couple of weeks, I will get an install update window when I first open firefox, but within less than 10 seconds it is installed and I am at my home page
To each his own; but for me personally, I prefer firefox

apoptosis2003

I use firefox. The real power of FF is that you can easily add extensions to it. I added:

(1) CusomizeGoogle, which removes google ads;
(2) forecastfox, which lets you see the weather;
(3) greasemonkey, which lets you load javascripts. one script removes facebook ads.

bokken

FF3. It takes care of the high memory usage. Even the beta is very stable. I use it as my primary browser. My current number is about 120k with 16 tabs and open for 4 hours+. Not bad... but IE sucks. But what can you expect, its from M$.

srunni

@apoptosis2003:
Don't forget Adblock Plus ;/

ilovebagels

Firefox or Safari.

pearlygate

IE7 and firefox is on par in terms of security so both of them or OK. I personally will choose firefox 3.0 once it comes out. I heard they revamped the memory management and has fewer memory leaks than 2.0. Also if you are somewhat care about security don't ever use safari. Safari is the most insecure web browser from what I've learned in class.

Toby

FireFox, no doubt.