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"...and that's better performance. Recently, I've asked you how you feel about Firefox 2's performance, and many of you felt the same way I did: it's just not that good any more. RIAs, AJAX and Flash rich websites are very common today, and Firefox 2 can't cope with it all, stuttering under the load of a thousand scripts and server requests.\nFirefox 3 RC2 is out today, and already I see some raving reviews. Walt Mossberg claims it's the best web browser out there, and I agree, although his piece is aimed at the Firefox initiates. Veterans, like me, are noticing some of the same issues from Firefox 2 in certain Firefox 3 betas; and while I'm not worried about a crash here or there, overall performance is a must have in today's web-oriented world. Some, like ZDnet's Dennis Howlett, are downright pessimistic about RC2; for him, the Firefox 3 experience has been a nightmare, which means that there's still work to be done before the final version is out.\nHaving finally yielded and tried Firefox 3 RC1, and now RC2 for a short while (in Vista, no less; I've installed it as a secondary OS, together with Firefox, just for the thrill of a fresh start), I must say that Firefox 3 is almost there. Memory leaks (Firefox 3 seems to use more memory than Firefox 2 in certain circumstances, but it never goes into all-you-can-eat mode) and freezes seem to be a thing of the past, and I haven't had the latest version crash on me yet. For the first time, I'm feeling glad that the new version took so long; hopefully, all this polishing will result in a very stable product.\nHere's my plea to the Firefox devs: I know we're almost there now (Walt Mossberg confidently claims that the final version is sure to go out this month), but don't hurry it. The 14,000 changes you've done to Firefox 3 sound nice, but if we don't get stability and performance, it'll be in vain."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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