![]() On my Mac Pro, it was much closer to a toss-up between Safari and the new version of Firefox-Safari was faster on some sites, Firefox 3 faster on others. Overall speed has improved quite dramatically from that of Firefox 2, which tended to lag behind Safari. Even better, Firefox 3 will automatically save and reopen your windows and tabs when it restarts, so you can pick up right where you left off. So while Firefox 3 still requires a restart to activate new add-ons, it’s not nearly as painful as it was before. The Firefox 3 beta loaded nearly as quickly as Safari on my 2.66GHz Mac Pro-anywhere from one to two seconds, give or take. That can be a pain, since Firefox isn’t exactly speedy to load.” The good news is that Firefox 3 seems to have cured that issue, at least according to my informal tests. While praising Firefox’s amazing assortment ofĪdd-ons, version 2 reviewer Nathan Alderman remarked that “…enabling new add-ons requires you to restart the browser. The top image is from Firefox 3-notice how much more well defined the text is when compared to the text in the lower clip from Firefox 2. Macintouch page, visibly demonstrates this difference. The difference in reading text is simply amazing-I previously found the fonts in Firefox to not quite look right, and my eyes tired when reading long pages. Fonts are clear and much easier to read, and graphics can have embedded color profiles (with some work from Web developers). This has also been fixed in Firefox 3.)Īlong with the new native widgets, Firefox 3 sports greatly improved font and graphics rendering. (Somewhat ironically, Firefox on Windows Vista didn’t look right, either-its menus weren’t displayed in the native Vista theme. ![]() ![]() As you can see, the browser now uses native OS X controls, and no longer feels like a poor Windows port. The image on the left is from the Firefox 3 beta the one on the right comes from Firefox 2. ![]()
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