I downloaded Firefox 3 Beta 4 yesterday and after 24 hours, I’m impressed!  The most significant improvements are the visual interface and the reduced memory usage. In Firefox 2 or IE 7, browsing with multiple tabs open, I was consistently using anywhere from 100mb to 200mb of memory. With 3 Beta 4, I am seeing no more than 75mb and usually around 60mb of memory usege. In addition, the new history / bookmarks management is pretty slick. It’s visually pleasing and fun to use, as well as being more useful since you search for the relevant terms and don’t need to explicitly remember the URL.

It is huge improvment, kudos to the Mozilla team!

 The Downside / Disclaimer:
It is a beta release, so most of your add-ons won’t work yet and the chances of encountering bugs are obviously greater (although none yet for me). But for the brave souls out there, download it now and don’t look back.

Screenshot of the new interface & links management after the jump…. (more…)