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Firefox 3 Beta 3 tips up
THE GREAT LIZARD Mozilla has released Firefox 3 Beta 3 for those brave souls who live on the edge and want to test it and see it break their add-ons.
The first sentence of the Release Notes says, "Firefox 3 Beta 3 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only." [emphasis in the original]
After some period of testing and bug-fixing, the Firefox 3 development team will begin issuing Release Candidate versions. Even those will likely still have some bugs, so unless you're happy with uninstalling Firefox 3 and reinstalling Firefox 2 you'll still probably want to wait for the final, released version of Firefox 3.
However, most of the new functionality in Firefox 3 is already there, including the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine. The additional work that's needed before Firefox 3 will be ready for wider use reportedly has to do with making add-ons work properly and fixing up some fit and finish issues.
There's a safely readable in-depth tour of new Firefox 3 features available here.
There's also a download page linked at the Release Notes link below, but -- for those of you who think reading Release Notes before installing software is for pansies -- be aware that Firefox 3 Beta 3 will install on top of and replace your existing version of Firefox under Mac OS/X or Linux. Under Windows, Firefox 3 Beta 3 installs into a separate folder, so Windows users will be safer. Still, we suggest you'll want to back up your existing Firefox installation anyway, first.
Taking Firefox 3 Beta 3 out for a winter test drive might be fun and is sure to be interesting -- but don't say we didn't warn you. µ
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When they fix the 100% CPU usage bug then maybe I will go to FF3. Supposedly the latest V2 update fixes the issue, but seeing as how it still happens to me I am reluctant to believe their claims that it is fixed in V3.

It is a major bug suffered by many users for years now. Somehow though I still have no remorse over abandoning the Vole-browser.
I downloaded beta 2 the other day, and its not bad. It actually auto updated to beta 3 this morning. CPU usage is down, but initial load time is up. Beta 3 changed the appearance somewhat, it looks a bit more like IE7 now. All in all, no complaints.
I have Firefox 2 and 3 beta 3 both installed. installing Firefox 3beta3 has no effect whatsoever on previous installations.
I've been using Firefox portable as it's a stand alone application and this FIrefox 3 Beta doesn't affect it in anyway...well not yet that I've seen!

It means you can still fall back on the old safe version and still play with version 3 Beta.....