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• 16 Dec 2008

  I’ve been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix^[1], and for the past few major releases, I’ve been trying to test the beta versions. I grabbed the first 3.1 beta in October, but it was unstable, and some of the features were jarring. The tab switching behavior was a special challenge to my productivity, and the new JavaScript engine (TraceMonkey) was probably a source of a lot of the instability.

  Last week, Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 was released, and it’s much nicer. I haven’t had a single crash yet, and it does feel a bit snappier. And all of the tab switching stuff has been backed out. Us web developers are excited about some new stuff like HTML 5 <video> and <audio> tags, cross-site XHR support, and CSS-like DOM selectors. But besides the speed, I don’t think end-users are going to be rushing to this release.

  [1] – I’m pretty sure I installed Phoenix 0.3 way back in fall of 2002. Look, you can still get it!

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