Firefox 3.0 was released yesterday to great success with 8 million downloads.  So much so that the demand brought the mozilla download servers down intermittently;  it took quite a bit of patience to download.  (To be fair, they sort of begged people to crash their servers with their desire for a world download record.  )  After only a day of playing with the new version, I really like it.  The new UI is nice but my favorite feature (so far) is the increased performance I’m seeing.  I’m not talking about any Javascript benchmarks but what I care about — how fast the pages I visit load and render.  GMail and my customized google home page are rendering noticeably faster.

It feels great to install a software upgrade that actually delivers a better product instead of a more bloated product chock-full of useless features that I will never use.  Psst, I’m looking at you Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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