With the release of the new Firefox Beta (3.5b4) announced recently I thought I would give it a spin. I know it’s a beta, and I shouldn’t be expecting too much – but it can’t crash more then their “stable” version does – so I don’t really think I am in for much of an issue.
So far I am enjoying the experience. The only real change I can notice is that they have stolen the ” + ” tab from IE. I don’t really see the need for this, I am more of an “Apple/Command + T” person (Ctrl + T for those PC users amongst us). I am however really missing Google Gears.
It seems that disabling the version protection (by going to about:config in the address bar and adding a boolean value set to false for the key “extensions.checkCompatibility”) doesn’t get Gears to work. I tried reinstalling it, simply to end up in a loop of installs.
I am not going to roll back versions, I am actually finding this beta a great deal more stable then the current release version of Mozilla Firefox. I am however looking forward to more extensions becoming compatible with the 3.5 stream.