Like millions of other loyal FF users waiting to upgrade from FF2, I too downloaded the 7MB installation file in the first few hours of its release, and it does work a lot snappier than FF2 in every respect. The memory footprint is a bit lighter too, usually hovering around the 105MB mark, with my usual 4 to 5 tabs open.FF2 used to hog as much as 140MB and cause my WinXP PC to hang frequently!

Many of my favourite extensions like Ad-Block Plus, Safe Cache, and Down them all! didn’t work at first, but a few of them did get rapid updates within a day or two of FF3’s release. Hopefully the boffins are busy updating my favourites like ImgLikeOpera and TryAgain (both currently incompatible with FF3) and will push them out ASAP!

Not surprisingly, most of the early adopters (the Twitter and FriendFeed crowd) are already raving over FF3, with over 8 million downloads within the first 24 hours of its release! Get it! It’s that good!