Well, everyone knows Firefox 3 is out by now (since Tuesday). Unfortunately, it’s not so big an event for me, because although I use Firefox for Windows on my desktop, I use this MacBook for most things, and I use Camino on here.

I am, however, glad that the latest milestone of Firefox was met keeping lowering and optimizing memory usage and speed in mind, because that was the original reason for its existence. I remember up until version 0.9 that Firefox was particularly speedy until they added a ton of features—not that these features are all bad, though, I just wished they’d stayed true to their roots. Now they finally have.

I still believe Camino continues to be faster and better on OS X simply because it’s native, while Firefox is, by nature, not native. I did download Fx 3 for OS X though and am actually keeping it on here this time because the web design and development tools for use with Firefox have become increasingly incredible (and I’ve forgotten about them). And although I’m not going to be using Fx most of the time, I’m glad open source has in some way become mainstream, with the official twenty-four hour release download count of Fx 3 exceeding eight million, as well as the development of a speedy Gecko 1.9, to be included in the next major version of Camino.

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