Well, it seems Firefox 3 beta 5 is out and with amazing speed results as far as I can see. I just stood in front of it watching it zap through heavy sites I know of and in just a fraction of what I used to enjoy with WebKit.

Nevertheless I must say I won’t change my preferences for three reasons:

1. Doesn’t support the CSS3 text-shadow yet.
2. Acid3 test: 72/100 (while WebKit beats the crap out of everyone with the astounding 92/100!
3. It’s beta and it seems everyone’s complaining on its constant crashing. I just tried the browser experience, nothing big.

I’m super pro-web-standards, call me a maniac but I work with CSS a lot (I mean a lot) and so I need the maximum reliability and integrity according to web standards. Nothing better than WebKit. I’m like Snook: I’d rather wait for a beta 6.

PS: implement CSS-3 text-shadow property, please please! That’s the best property in CSS-3, along with border-radius if well rendered (update 21/05/2008 - box-shadow and selectors too! :D)

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