Firefox 3 has officially been announced as the fastest browser when compared to Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9.5 - an amazing feat considering Opera has always been the fastest browser (see ArsTechnica). I can easily attest to this as I have all 3 installed at my desktop at home and it’s always been Opera > IE 7 > Firefox 2. I stuck with Firefox 2 as my main browser nevertheless because of its amazing plug-ins and the added security. Occasionally I fire up Opera just for kicks and I use IE7 for badly designed websites that needs it. A more interesting note is that the author over at Wired.com has a multitude of plug-ins installed as well and he mentioned that they work on Firefox 3.

Needless to say, I’m downloading it right now.