So I'm a little bit bored at work, and I figured I would give something new a go. I'm running Firefox 3.0 Alpha 5 right now(Alpha 6 is due out later today, the first beta next month).

So far, I'm impressed. It might be that 90% of my extensions got disabled, but it seems to be going much, much faster. Pages load half the time. I wish two copies of Firefox could be run at the same time, because I would love to do a side-by-side of 2 and 3.

Visually, it looks exactly the same. I guess they have already done all the major changes to the interface with 1 to 2, so no need to change more.

Running the Acid2 CSS test, it passed 100%(Something Firefox 2 doesn't do very well). So I'm always for more CSS support.

So, paint me impressed. Faster rendering, higher CSS support, and the same great interface. Firefox 3 is going to be a great addition to the foxy line.

P.S. On a side note, I'm running Firefox 3 as a portable app. The way to do it is download 3, install normally, then download and install firefox 2 portable on your jump drive. Go into X:/PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Apps\firefox\ delete the contents, then replace them with the contents of C:\Program Files\Gran Paradiso\. After that, you can run it using the "FirefoxPortable.exe" program one folder up. Please note that Gran Paradiso is the current alpha's name, when Alpha 6 comes out, it will likely have another name, so the folder will be different.