bill - 6:07 am on Feb 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

I've been playing with this version for a few hours now and I'm impressed with the additional control they've given the user for site-by-site management. You can choose which sites you'll allow Flash, animated GIFs, cookies, etc. and turn that off completely for other sites.

They've still got a ways to go on the bookmark manager. I thought that was going to be worked on for this release.

I agree with encyclo's take on the Widgets. If this is what the final implementation is going to look like I'll pass. Reminds me of the old push applications that were popular in the late 1990s. I can't see using them in their current form.

Overall I like it though. It seems even faster than my 8.51 when rendering pages. I'm going to set this one as the default browser for a while and see what happens.