The official announcement. Do you care? I do. I think FF3 is going to be quicker and slicker than FF2. Some of the addons might not be quite ready yet, so be careful to check to see if ones you use a lot are there. The footprint of FF3 promises to be smaller. So, yay!
Oh, and it's free (without inforaping).
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I've been using it since RC1, it's a huge improvement over FF2 - noticeably quicker and much nicer to use.
And, as Rob says, free-as-in-speech, which is the best of all worlds. :)
Nice, any particularly snacky features? Integration with delicious still good?
The main new feature is what they call the "awesome bar" which is the address bar, but integrates searching through your bookmarks and your history. The net result is you type any part of the name of the website you want, and it knows the address pretty much every time. It's hard to describe and make it sound like a bug improvement, but it's a lot better than the old combo-box in practice. It also has a 'bookmark this' button in the bar - one click bookmarks a site into an "uncategorised" folder, a second one opens a dialog box allowing you to edit the bookmark's location and details, which brings me on to..
They've also totally overhauled the bookmark system, which is a big improvement - there's finally a tagging taxonomy. It's not a full-on folksonomy like delicious though, since it's only your own tags, but still a welcome addition.
Other than that, it's just little things. They've reworked the forward/back buttons to de-emphasise "forward," which is much less frequently used, there's a full page zoom now, not just for text.
Delicious updated their plugin to be ff3 compatible yesterday, and it all looks to be working fine, although with the new bookmark handling and searching functionality built-in, I'm not sure I'll be using delicious for much longer anyway. I'll play with it for a while and make my mind up. While messing around just now, I've discovered that it looks like it ties quite nicely into the awesome bar as well. I'll have to have a look at how the tagging translates though.
If you're interested, I'd say grab RC2 (the current release) and check it out; it's perfectly stable and well usable. The add-ons aren't all there yet, but they're getting there, and it'll install into a different directory to FF2, so you can fall back to that if you need to.
Cheers for the comprehensive reply! I shall get the old RC2 tonight and have a play.
I am not sure about the "Awesome Bar", sounds like they're getting a bit obsessed with themselves there.
I grant you, the name is a bit unnecessary. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a public-facing name, or just want they called it internally during development.