I’ve been using the beta version of the next Mozilla Firefox release, Firefox 3 and just recently upgraded to Firefox release candidate 1. I’m one of those early adopters and jump on new software when I can to get the latest and greatest features, even if I have to go through the issues with beta releases. As long as there is no huge effect on my daily work, I’ll take the small hiccups.

The Firefox 3 beta 5 was pretty solid, just the occasional browser crashes, nothing huge. Release candidate 1 is even better. I really haven’t seen much as far as problems, even though Mozilla published a list of known issues.

I do most of my work on Mac OS 10.5 and Firefox 3 is a superb upgrade on the Mac side. I prefered Safari over Firefox 2, it just seemed a bit clunky. Firefox 3 is sleeker and isn’t the memory hog Firefox 2 was. On the Windows side, I’ve always used Firefox, and version 3 is running nice on XP.

There is a cool Firefox plugin I’ve found call Foxmarks that syncs your bookmarks on multiple computers. I use it to sync the bookmarks on the Mac OS and Win XP sides of my Intel MacBook.

Definitely check out Firefox 3. Just remember, it still has its known issues.