Switched to the new version of this Open Source browser last week after my anti virus software released a compatible version for their toolbar addon. So far I have been pretty impressed, it not only runs faster but is less prone to locking up than version 2 – what used to happen was that after a lengthy online session the browser would lock up and Task Manager would have to be used to kill it.
My not very extensive research on the new version has only had a lock up occur once, and it was confined to one tab which was much easier to cure.
There have been some concerns that some of it's malware detection features are not as rigorous as they should be, but that will only impact naïve users.
This is not intended to be an extensive review, there are enough of those around to read, but if you are using an earlier version of Firefox you should upgrade now – it is only a 7 Mb download. Users of Internet Explorer should give it a try, it will import your existing bookmarks and will ask you every time that you start it if you want to make it your default browser.
The only real downside is that under Windows it only supports versions from Windows 2000 onwards.
It can be downloaded from here.
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