Firefox 0.9 is out now, for better or for worse (good: bugs fixed, bad: hideous new default theme).
On the Windows version, they made a slight goof though. It looks like it imports all of the previous configuration settings, but the version of the browser reported in the user agent string is one of those settings, so it continues to identify itself as Firefox/0.8 if you do an upgrade from 0.8. OOPS.
The OS X version seems to report the correct version after an upgrade, though.
If someone really needs to tell the ‘fake’ 0.8s apart from the real 0.8s, the ‘fake’ 0.8s also have ‘Gecko/20040614’ as part of the user agent string.
I kind of like the default theme. It looks much better than the previous OS X theme.
The major complaint I had was that the buttons were way too big for such simplified graphics, but then I discovered the ‘Use Small Icons’ option and it’s not too bad now.
Looks like I’ve joined you two in my preference.
I was never really impressed with any of Mozilla’s kin (especially after seeing the speed and low overhead of Safari) because of the bloat and slow reactions. However, I’m using Firefox as my primary browser now, and I’m really quite happy with it. The speed is definitely slower than Safari, but nowhere near as bad as I suspected it might be. It’s also not slow enough to deter me from using it normally — I’d rather have the slight speed decrease than continue the incessant irritation of windows being resized in Safari. I *really* hate that….