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I just upgraded from Firefox 3 Beta 4 to Beta 5. It’s amazing how unstable Beta 5 is compared to the earlier version. Gmail crashes. Google maps crashes. Almost every other site I visit crashes. And looks like I’m not alone: doing a Google search for “Firefox 3 beta x crash” shows a consistently increasing number of results. ![Number of Google search results for Firefox 3 Beta crashes, by Beta version](https://quickchart.io/chart?cht=bvs&chs=300x200&chd=t:12300,17200,24400,48700,151000&chds=0,150000&chtt="Firefox 3 Beta x crashes": Google results&chco=dbdbff&chg=20,33,1,5&chbh=40,10,10&chxt=x,y&chxl=0:|Beta 1|Beta 2|Beta 3|Beta 4|Beta 5|1:|0|50,000|100,000|150,000) ...

A decade with Netscape. I’ve been wavering between IE, Opera and Mozilla over the last few months, and have come a full circle. IE: Default browser. Works with BCG’s intranet. Opera: Great offline browsing. Fast downloading. Tabbed browsing. Mouse gestures. Mozilla: Powerful plugins. IE: A9 toolbar. Fantastic way of searching. IE again: Google desktop. Solves all offline browsing problems I had.

101 things you can do in Mozilla and not IE. But apart from 1. Tabbed browsing and 2. Popup blocking, I don’t quite use the other features. Mozilla (and Opera) still need some catching up to do. via New Architect

But then, I should also keep in mind that Mozilla is open source. So they’ll keep coming out with cool stuff like Mozilla’s Bayesian spam filter and type ahead find. via Boing Boing

I’m trying Mozilla. It has native SOAP support. So I can make a web page that has dynamic Google searches (and Amazon booklists, etc) without a web-server.

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.