Quote Originally Posted by dsr View Post
We all know you love Opera, but your post seems just a bit too biased. I personally find Firefox 3 a very nice improvement over Firefox 2. It seems snappier, and the GUI is much nicer on Mac OS X (I didn't notice a big difference in Arch Linux) than it was in Firefox 2 or than it is in Opera 9.5. I agree that the download manager is no great shakes, but who uses their browser to download anything other than small files? Anything larger than a few megabytes is a job for a full-featured download accelerator like axel or aria2 IMO.
I was basing that comment on the cruddy RC that came with Ubuntu. Now I'm using Win XP again I can see the bebnefits over Firefox 2, yes, plus it doesn't look like shit like the Tango theme does . Opera 9.5 is still nicer though, once you replace the idiotic new skin with the classic one, because it's so fully featured and once you start using it's little conveniences it's hard to go back to the relative minimalism of Firefox (I'm not an extensions person). FF3 does seem fast though (whereas FF2 ran in slo-mo), faster than O9.5 in most tests, but O9.5 is fast enough (a huge improvement on 9.27) and, like I say, so much nicer to use.