After I voiced my disappointment with Firefox 2, Mozilla responded by releasing Firefox 3 Beta 1 two days later on 22nd November. Joking.. in regardless of the existence of my post, it will still be released anyway.

Firefox 3,  which can be downloaded from Mozilla’s servers, is available in more than 20 languages. I have read some reviews on Firefox 3 (here and here) and Firefox 3 receives nothing but praise from the reviewers.

Among the “good” things we will be expecting from Firefox 3 are listed below:-

• Loads of new features
• Outstanding improvement to the user experience
• Provide a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, and security

With Firefox 3 stable version is expected for release on December or latest by January, I would suggest to you to wait instead of trying out the beta version.

I am ardent fan of Firefox browser and been heavily promoting it ever since I started using it few years ago. Things went well and my browsing experience with Firefox is great.. until I upgraded to the latest Firefox 2 once it was make available for public.

Since then, I encountered a serious degradation of performance which includes:-

1. Frequent hangs when switching to another tab
2. Longer loading time compares to Firefox 1.5
3. Occasionally send CPU usage to 99%

At first, I thought that it may due the extensions that I have installed but I do not encounter these problems when I am using Firefox 1.5 installed with the same extensions. In the meantime, until they solve the issue, I will re-install Firefox 1.5 on my PC. Hopefully, the upcoming Firefox 3 will offer a huge improvements over its predecessor. Still a Firefox fan though.

Do you encounter similar problem? Post your comment here!