The new Fire­fox release is great, espe­cially the built in and seam­lessly inte­gra­ted spell chec­ker, this should dra­ma­ti­cally improve all those poorly spe­lled posts and web pages we see everywhere. The new glass theme and high­ligh­ting is an impro­ve­ment (in my opi­nion) and new built in Phishing tools are also a posi­tive deve­lop­ment. Other note­worthy fea­tu­res inc­lude ses­sion saver, and sug­ges­tions in the search box. To test this release with regards to the ill-fated memory leak I loa­ded up a page of 20 or so ani­ma­ted GIFs which pre­vious ver­sions would choke on and die a pain­ful death, the page still saw a large inc­rease in page-file usage and some slow down but after brow­sing away from the page it all disap­pea­red and I didn’t have to res­tart the browser.

A cou­ple of things I don’t like, or maybe I am just not used to, are the chan­ges to tabs. The chan­ges give a fixed mini­mum width and a hori­zon­tal scro­lla­ble tool­bar when the num­ber of tabs exceed the screen width and also a “Close” icon on each tab. So I thought it would be help­ful to state here how to change the tabs back to “the old style” ( i.e. FF 1.x):

Remove Close But­ton
To remove the close but­ton from each tab and ins­tead place one but­ton in the top right, in the about:config file change browser.tabs.closeButtons to “3”
(For more details see: http://​kb​.mozi​lla​zine​.org/​B​r​o​w​s​e​r​.​t​a​b​s​.​c​l​o​s​e​B​u​t​t​ons ).

Fit More Tabs on the Page
To do this you have to reduce the mini­mum width of tabs. Once again, using the about:config file change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a value of your choice. The chan­ges will not be appa­rent until you res­tart Firefox.

For the com­plete run down visit: Mozi­lla­zine