Firefox 3 Beta 3 released

Firefox 3 Beta 3 has been released.

I still find the full page zoom feature very disturbing. It does not let you zoom text on poorly designed pages, instead it zooms all the layout, resulting in close to zero benefit. Opera seems to be much more user friendly in this aspect. A big step back.

Another feature, described as "Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu." in the release notes, bothers me to a great degree. As someone who has many-many tabs open at all times, I need to use tab scrolling and quickmenu a lot. But I feel that comparing with Firefox 2, the new way is less functional and definitely harder (and slower!) to use. Another big step back.

Otherwise Firefox 3 is quite usable. I have been using beta 2 for a couple of months now and besides the aforementioned grunts plus a weak download system and invasive location awesomebar, it's almost solid rock to use. Still, others see great performance improvements, but to me Firefox is as slow as it has always been.

Update: Beta 3 seems to be significantly slower than Beta 2. Maybe some debugging code...