By and large, I was happy with FireFox 0.8. Not enough to use it at home, but certainly enough for here at work. My biggest problems were that it crashed quite regularly (yes, I tried nightly builds, yes I reported errors to the team, no it doesn’t happen in other browsers; even Mozilla ones).

Also, I experienced a lot of rendering issues on a lot of sites. Some would be 3000 pixels wide, others would have huge or tiny text. Lots of issues.

So, it was with bated breath that I downloaded 0.9. There are some very, very good things about 0.9, not the least of which are the error reporting that’s now built into this (so the FireFox team finds out that my browser crashes and can try and track it down) as well as the developer tools.

I really need to look into these more this weekend when I start on the new Ensight design (hopefully); but from what I hear these are so fantastic that you might just go see your inlaw: just for kicks.

Also, the rendering issues I had seen are generally gone. There are some new oddities (some windows media embedded files that shouldn’t autoplay DO, which is very annoying when you’re on a page with multiple videos); but the experience is definitely more pleasant.

So, overall I think this is a better experience, but since IE doesn’t crash and FireFox does, I’ll likely be switching back. I’ll definitely give FireFox a try again at 1.0 though.