DISQUS

None of the extension I use are "betas". They are the ones that were not disabled. As the betas progressed, some of these extension were broken, and later updated them selves. Several of the themes went through some fast update cycles (over the course of 2 or 3 days); but I expect that,

After all, if you see a bug "crawling" out of your code; get a flyswatter.

I have been using FF3 betas since they became available in November; in fact, this reply is being created using the RC1 version of FF3.

I have the following extensions installed and they work:

Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Element Hider, Download Statusbar, Down Them All, Extended Cookie manager, No Script, PDF download, Splaah, Toolbar buttons, US English dictionary and Web of Trust.

These themes are installed and are compatible with the RC1 version:

Aeon Big, Aeon Clouds, Aeon Colors, Aeon Jumbo, Classic Compact (I use it daily), Default 3.0, HiVis, HiVis Large, Metal Lion - Andeomeda, Microfox, NASA Night Launch (BTW - congrats to those involved with the Phoenix lander), Nautipolis, Pitch Dark, W3V8 and Walnut.

The thought of going back to FF2 never entered my mind. I have heard chatter about FF4, rumored to be based on Mozilla 2 (Gecko 2.0), being "further integrated into the computer and the internet. I am curious to see where that will go.

BAD IDEA!!!! especially if it is automatically included in the browser! Even if the the user must turn it on, IMHO, it can be abused. It could end up as a new attack surface (like Javascript, XSS, etc).

Now, if this is done through some kind of "add-on"; where the user must explicitly install it, then I am more comfortable.

But, still, I EXTREMELY DISLIKE the idea that someone wants to "look over my shoulder" while I am browsing.

An earlier poster made reference to Phorm (f/k/a 121 Media); if Firefox implements anything like Phorm, then we are all heading down "train wreck" road.

I really like using Firefox, having used the version 3 betas since November; so please do not go backwards!!!!