I'm writing this post using Firefox 2 Alpha 3. I installed it because I wanted to play around with some of the more advanced canvas tag capabilities it has. It also has inline spellchecking of textareas, which is nice for applications like this. Strangely, "Firefox" doesn't seem to be in the spelling dictionary... you'd think they'd have noticed that by now! I got it to crash a couple of times when I was using the canvas tag incorrectly, but it's been pretty smooth sailing since then. I'm going to try to stick with it to help contribute to the testing effort.

To the user, there aren't massive changes immediately apparent: tabs are a bit different, the search box is improved, and it seems a bit snappier. I won't bother to walk through the features since this isn't even a beta and the information is already out there, but you might want to try it at some point.

My advisor was mentioned on Slashdot yesterday (and mentioned in the wall street journal, too).