Firefox3.5 was released a while ago, yet lazy I just updated my FF today. And the direct reason for that is I read two interesting articles, both talking about some fancy CSS effects to the text - one is about the fancy text gradient/shadow effect, one is about text rotation. Both didn’t work on my FF3.0 or FF2.0.

All right, so here we go, FF3.5. How much better is it ? It’s faster, it displays fonts even more nicely, and most of all - it supports CSS3 and above! well, while enjoying this advanced modern browser, I also noticed a few cons - forcing to update the add-ons: I have had the great add-ons of firebug, colorpicker and measurelt, they were working perfect and I had no intention of changing them. But as soon as I installed the FF3.5, it told me I have to update them otherwise they won’t be functioning… anyway, I am not so used to the new interface of firebug yet.

Overall I liked FF from day one. It never lets me down with 2.0, 3.0 and the updated 3.5 version, both as a regular computer/internet user and as a web designer. However, to be a web guy, we need to realize that what we produce is for the mass media, instead of for ourselves. Therefore, the two CSS3 tricks about the text effects are just for fun, but definitely not for real work practice. I am taking notes of those codes, but I would say it’s for the future only, when the market share of IE (of all versions), FF3.0 and below, Safari 3 and below and Opera 9 and below are all close to 0%. When will that happen? You tell me.