I have been using the official release of Firefox 3 for a day or two now, and am really enjoying it. There are some very subtle but powerful differences which have made me re-think how I have things setup.
The first change is that I have installed the Smart Bookmarks Bar extension and the Personal Menu extension to enhance the already cleaned up interface of FF3. All of my most used sites are displayed as Favicons on my bookmark bar, and in general everything looks quite nice.
The second change is that I have exported my bookmarks from Ma.gnolia and started working with them inside of Firefox. The new address bar is quite nice, and when combined with a goo number of well tagged bookmarks I can easily get to what I am looking for. In fact, I can quickly get to pretty much all the bookmarks on my new bookmarks toolbar just by typing in the tags I have assigned. I am using some short tags to get to things quickly (newz for my daily news fix, pim for my calendar, mail etc).
I agree with many people that the browser does feel faster, and I have not seen it jack up the RAM usage much…yet. I am still experiencing some crashes, especially when I close FF. I think it is extension related, but I have not been able to figure out which one yet. By the way, I am running the following extensions on my primary laptop (Dell Inspiron 1420 - Her name is Emmy).
- DownThemAll! 1.0.3
- Extension List Dumper 1.14.1
- Firefox Showcase 0.9.4.8
- Forecastfox 0.9.7.6
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 2.0.47.4
- Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.4.1
- Google Earth Plugin 4.3.9477.6413
- Google Gears 0.3.24.0
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.20
- Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.1.20080
- LaterLoop 0.3
- Mento 1.1.6
- Personal Menu 4.0
- Remember The Milk for Gmail 1.0.1
- Smart Bookmarks Bar 1.4.1