Milliseconds matter. If everyone’s Web 2.0 apps are doing complex computations in the browser, that browser better be efficient. Firefox’s developers seem to realize that, mercifully.
Firefox 3 is showing significant improvements over FF2 in the speed with which it executes regular expressions. According to tests shown here, it’s more than twice as fast.
It’s not as [...]

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On my Treo, I typically use Xiino as my browser of choice, putting up with its quirks because it’s so much better than the built-in browser. But all Xiino traffic goes through a proxy server, and lately that proxy seems to be not working so well. The last release of Xiino, the mellifluously named 3.4.1E, [...]

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After this come the Release Candidates. Are we ready? As users, as developers… and is it ready for us?
The front/back buttons have been redesigned yet again, your favorite extension hasn’t been upgraded yet, but the browser’s quicker than ever. OS integration continues to improve, with native UI widgets for Windows, OS X, and GTK — [...]

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Adobe released a new public beta version of its Lightroom photo editing and workflow management software on Wednesday.
Lightroom 2.0 adds support for 64-bit environments on both Mac OS X and Windows Vista. It also adds non-destructive editing of localized areas within images, so you can adjust the exposure of the background of a photograph, for [...]

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Mozilla has pushed the fifth beta version of Firefox 3 into the open waters of the internet. Grab it here. The release notes have also been posted.
I asked Mozilla director of community development Asa Dotzler for an update, and here’s what he says about Firefox 3 beta 5:

755 bug fixes, including all Firefox 3 [...]

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