Så fik jeg endelig lige prøvet FireFox 3 Beta 4 som udkom i går, hvilket jeg har set frem til.
Den er nemlig hurtig – ja tak! 
Prøv selv, du kan godt have den installeret ved siden af FF2.
Dog skal du ikke regne med at dine plugins virker endnu, men det er dejligt at browse-oplevelsen er lige så hurtig som Safari 3 (for Windows tilmed!).
Du kan også prøve Internet Explorer 8 Beta, men det kan kun anbefales hvis du ikke har noget imod at den “overskriver” din version 7 og at sider begynder at se underlige ud. Jeg er ikke imponeret…
Herunder kan du lige se et screenshot af Netvibes (den helt nye Ginger version for øvrigt) i Firefox 3.
Der er mange nye ting i FF3 (og beta 4) men vigtigst er de kraftige performance-forbedringer:
- [Improved in Beta 4!] Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in significant improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 4, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
- [Improved in Beta 4!] Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 Beta 4 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
Læs resten her – happy browsing!