I have long been in the “Firefox is okay, but no better than IE7″ camp. I’ve even blogged that Firefox Sucks Too. My claim has always been that Firefox is better at some things than IE, but not all of them, and in fact IE was better at some stuff than Firefox. Mostly I’ve stood my ground and claimed that there aren’t any good browsers yet. Since that time, Firefox 3 has been released and to give it a fair shake I’ve been using it as my main browser. The verdict: it is hands down the best browser available today (yes, I’ve tried Opera, and no I don’t like it).
What makes it so great?
- It is scary fast. Noticably faster without having to do any benchmarking, etc.
- I love built in spell checking. Yes, it was in Firefox 2, but Firefox 2 was terrible so I was never able to benefit from it.
- It doesn’t crap out when you have a few tabs open (my number one most hated anti-feature of FF2)
- I can scroll in Last.fm smoothly. IE and FF2 both yack when they try that.
- Add-ons. They were always great, but now them improve a decent browser.
I suppose now it’s IE’s turn to up the ante (though I’ve tried the IE8 beta and it’s yet to impress).
