Why did you download the beta? Surely you want to run 'release' software?
I doubt firefox 9 is much different to FF8 to be honest. Still take a age to start up and add ons I like to use once again fail.
No wonder more and more people are going to chrome.
Mozilla you have certainly lost the plot.
Adrian
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