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4.5 stars
""The bad" One of Cnets worst?"
Pros: Faster, Cleaner, Easier to work with, New(Functioning) features.
Cons: Always room for improvement, Resources, Non-US sites have "Issues"
Summary: "The bad: Firefox 1.5 requires you to update most of your favorite extensions."
There needs to be a raspberry award for worst "The bad" on Cnet.com, I nominate that one, all of my extensions supported 1.5 MONTHS ahead of RC1, and the updating was both instant and painless, though I guess that's unfair, as I'm on broadband. Cnet must be be on Dial-Up to complain about the new streamlined updates, what a lame excuse for a con.
Use something real why don't you? Such as the demanding resource usage or lack of functionality with many Non-US websites? Those would be better than complaining about updates.
The reordering of tabs, which I've wanted for quite a long while, is excellent, it helps me keeps all kinds of things organized while I'm trying to do something, such as compare websites for purchases.
The browser loads pages faster, faster than IE now thanks to this version, the back and forward cache helps you move back and forth instantly, also welcome.
Problems? Sites like Sony.com, and generally all Japanese/Asian sites either refuse you if you don't use IE, or crash due to extremely(And needlessly) IE-Specific HTML. Thankfully Firefox has an extension which can force these sites to be rendered with IE through Firefox, though it's still annoying.
Firefox is heavier on the resources, though through some kind of...I assume, "Magick", Mozilla has kept this covert, whereas some programs take few resources and yet plug up the computer, and indeed some that take many and rightfully plug it up, Firefox takes quite a few resources and yet *somehow* remains fast to open, fast to browse, and with no noticeable hit to PC performance.
Overall, not the leap Firefox 2.0 is planned to be, or even the almost futuristic plans for Firefox 3.0, but a significant improvement over the original and not just the monotony of security patching as with most large software upgrades.
