so it's been out for a couple of weeks, and i've been playing with it since the beta releases for a couple of months now, i thought i'd post some of my thoughts on it. having used it on mac, windows, but not linux (there's some kind of big furore going on there, so that's best left at ff2 for now), i haven't used all the new stuff, but i've definitely liked a few of the obvious changes.
the url search thingie, where you just type into the address (awesome) bar and it starts showing results from your history and bookmarks, very nice. at first i wasn't too sure about it, but now, i don't even need to remember url's anymore 
. the simple but effective changes for remembering passwords, etc, not using a modal window was a welcome change.
the default gui looks much nicer too, i haven't even bothered finding a new theme, it looks fine to me. one annoying thing on mac though, you can't right (or middle) click anything in the application menu, it just treats them like left clicks.
of course, the main reason anyone uses firefox, the extensions are all still there. although firebug (the version i'm using anyway 1.2b) is more buggy (dynamically changing css and that kind of stuff), it is beta after all i guess, but stick to 1.0 if you can. web developer toolbar works about the same (though i don't have to use it as much anymore), but definitely no issues there.
apparently it's a lot faster and less of a memory hog now, i haven't really noticed, which is probably a good thing, it does feel very snappy and clean though. so i just want to say that i've been advocate of firefox for a very long time, well before it was even called firefox, even before it was called firebird, back in the old phoenix days of 0.4b, it's always good to bring up how long i've been using the coolest browser on the block, just to prove how with it i am .
recommended!!
also, picture stolen from mozillalinks.org.
#33 dtra (david tran)
hmmm, a crash when trying to apply a tag using panoramio (i'm sure that didn't happen before), using my work (windows) computer, so maybe i'll have another go on my mac later.
dtra
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21:18 30th-jun-2008
don't know if it's a firebug thing, or a windows thing, but on windows i updated to the latest beta (1.2.0b4), and that panoramio thing happens, while on my mac (1.2.0b3), no crash 
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dtra
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4:05 1st-jul-2008