Kevin Smith

I recently downloaded Firefox 3 Beta 5 (the supposed last stage of beta for the new browser) and, after a few hours of usage, decided to note a few things about it.  I'm no professional developer or anything; I'm just sharing my opinion on things.

What I'm Sure I Like:
GMail is much faster.

The Applications tab in Options.  Makes me happy.

The new Page Info options.
The new Malware Protection.  ThumbsUp!

Multiple text selects via the control key.

The new download manager.  It's clean and you can pause/resume downloads efficiently...awesome.

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What I'm Sure I Don't Like:
Folder menus seem to lag quite heavily sometimes.  This might have been my computer having a blonde moment, though.
Only one of my extensions for FF2 had an upgrade...but this has nothing to do with Firefox..I just don't like it lol.

The default theme's back-forward navigation buttons -- They're soooo close together I found myself repeatedly hitting back instead of forward (and forward instead of back).  Eventually, I went to Backspace and Shift+Backspace.

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What I'm Unsure About:
Smart Bookmarks -- While it's a nice idea, put most used bookmarks and recently visited sites in a folder on the quick links bar totally eliminates the usefullness for me.  I have most most visited sites on my quicklinks bar already.  And if they would have left the recently visited/address bar alone, there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.  Which leads me to my next point:

The new recently visited dropdown address bar

Tabscrolling forward and reverse.  It just doesn't seem efficient to me.

Bookmark tagging (just like del.icio.us and other services) -- Good idea for webservices but I'd rather stick to the basics with my applications.

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What I'm Indifferent About:

The hyped "One-Click Site Info!" -- this was available before (with two clicks) and really doesn't have that much of an impact on me.