I'm really excited to see Firefox 3.5 come out soon. I know Chrome 2 and Safari 4 have been out already, but with FF3.5 a really large slice of internet users are going to have a really fast, kickass modern browser.
I was testing my software (which is really heavy on the javascript - makes extensive use of Ext-js) with RC1 earlier today and it just flew. Feels damn near like a desktop app.
What about native-style widgets? Are they finally fixed? That's been my gripe with firefox since day 1, and the only thing still holding me back to Sarafi.
Although buttons look native-ish, dropdowns (from the <select> element) still look hideous. Check out the following bugs:
In my experience, Safari 4 has been noticeably faster than FF3.5 RC1. I could understand wanting the extensions and such, but if speed made that much of a difference in your decision, I just can't fathom how Firefox on OS X could be preferred.
I've been using Firebug 1.4.0b2 with Firefox 3.5b and it works well. I use the Firefox nightly builds so I've turned off plugin compatibility checking.
Not exactly - I was looking for what they've specifically fixed between 3.5b4 and RC1. I suppose I could pull a Bugzilla report, but I was hoping for just a summary.
Are there any plans to refresh the appearance to better fit with Vista? It looks quite ugly, especially compared to Chrome (which does an excellent job of integrating well with the look of Vista -- quite surprising, coming from Google).
Tweaking the icon is nice and all, but what's the point if the browser itself looks bad?
