Firefox Upgraded to 3.0.1
1:52 pm August 31st, 2008 by Sal Cangeloso
I finally made the jump to Firefox 3 (actually 3.0.1) this morning after holding on to 2.0.1.16 for a long time. I started getting pretty frequent notices telling me to move to version 3, but I spent so much time in the browser that I didn’t want to rock the boat.
So far the upgrade has been working well. I have had 3.0 for weeks on my other systems, just not my main work computer, so there was no adjustment needed. The biggest thing was making sure that my plugins work.
The one plugin that required a little bit of finesse to get to work on 3.0.1 was Tab Mix Plus, which I consider essential to Firefox. With a little searching I found this link which got me here. Grab the newest xpi and you are all set. It seems to be a prerelease, but it’s been great so far.
Past that 3.0.1 has been pretty solid. It’s definitely faster than 2.0.0.16, but we’ll see how it does with some of the things that has given Firefox trouble in the past (memory handling/leakage, dealing with a lot of tabs, new versions of Flash, etc.)
