Firefox 3 release candidate ready for download
May 16 Firefox 3 (Release Candidate) became available for download.
Among the major improvements are changes in the look and feel on the various operating systems, major security enhancements, and increased performance and stability
Reported that improvements to Firefox JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
Changes also touched upon the optimization of memory usage. Actually this was is the main problem of this browser. Hope new Firefox less greedy 
A list of all the new features is available on the Mozilla Firefox site.
You can download Firefox 3 here
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