aksival - 5:42 pm on Jul 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

I wasn't too pleased with Firefox 3 as it arrived out of the box. In fact, I downloaded it at home and work but reserved the install on my home computer until many of my favorite add-ons were updated. I could really care less about the 'awesome bar', it doesn't do much for me either way, but I'm used to seeing it now, so I've stopped complaining about it.

The new default theme lacks something, though...perhaps that good ol' fashioned Firefox look. FF3 became a lot more aesthetically pleasing after I installed the Phoenity Aura theme. One of my favorite built-in features now is CTRL+SHIFT+T, which allowed me to ditch Tab Mix Plus altogether. And yes, Gmail and a handful of other web apps run noticeably faster now.

I understand that a lot of this version was code cleanup and optimization, but from the looks of it, this is really nothing more than Firefox 2.5 at best.