From the Orient

A new version of Firefox is “now out (Mozillazine announcement and discussion with some interesting comments about configuration and some less interesting comments about themes)”:http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4843.

On my system it is a lot quicker at loading pages. Maybe it was just cruft build up on my system, but the new import tool made this the first upgrade that was painless and almost effortless. The new Extension Manager means I’ve still got to add in all my extensions again but hopefully this will be the last time I have to do that.

To be clear on this, the import tool is brilliant. My profile, my cookies, my configuration and my setup were all imported without fuss into the new browser. This is an important step towards a mainstream browser.

I’m not sure I care for the new default theme, but I’m not going to comment futher as “the argument about that (This is the sanest link I could find that described the reason for the new theme in a calm and informative way)”:http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/june/newdefaulttheme is almost as pointless and divisive as the “Mass Syndication Debate (Sam Ruby called for detente and started off another round)”:http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2004/05/28/detente.

Further reading

* “A big list of weblogs talking about 0.9″:http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/005714.html
* “Burning Edge”:http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/archives/000466.html

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