Firefox 3: Much faster HTML rendering

According to the the user tracking software I use for this site, more than half of you users use some kind of Firefox. If you don't use it, you should check out the latest version of Firefox that has been released in the past month.

If you've never used anything other than Internet Explorer, its probably worth experimenting a bit. Installing a new web browser is as easy as going to a website, downloading some software and installing it. There are various comparisons between browsers as well as some picture based browser comparisons.

I've slowly migrated from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 on my various Windows machines at work and home and I'm happy with the changes.

The major new feature that I'm happy about is faster HTML rendering. Pages appear much faster than they did with version 2. Firefox 2 also used up tons of memory (and it likely was wasteful with this memory consumption). Pages appear at least a half of a second faster per page than they did with Firefox 2. There is also a nice new user interface with pretty buttons.

Happy browsing. If you haven't upgraded yet (and almost 80% of you Firefox users have not), click through and enjoy the painless upgrade. If you are still and IE user, give open source web browsers a try and download Firefox!