Firefox 3.1
I’ve been using Firefox 3.1 beta 3 now for about a week and it seems to be quite good. I haven’t noticed any major problems with it. The installation was the same as normal. It did install to a different directory but copied over all my extensions and bookmarks etc. They all worked straight away.
There are only 2 changes that I have seen, the rest appear to be ‘under the hood’. There is Private Browsing, this works the same as in Chrome. It doesn’t save any history, temp files etc. of your session. Unlike Chrome though, rather than open a new window, it will hide all of your existing tabs and open a blank one. Any browsing is then private. Exiting private mode will restore all your original tabs. It doesn’t appear that your saved passwords are accessible in private mode and it won’t save any as well.
The only other change I’ve noticed is that the X on tabs to close them doesn’t appear if you only have one tab open. I use Foxmarks (or Xmarks now) and it didn’t seem to like me syncing my bookmarks between 3.0 and 3.1 but I updated my laptop to 3.1 as well and then it worked no problem.
I have only had a couple of crashes while I’ve using it, and they were while I was closing it down. So not really too bothered about that. Overall it seems to be a good update. Don’t know how long it’s going to be in beta for though but I can’t think that it will be too much longer.