Fire Mages Getting some love?

Was looking at the patch notes and saw Fire getting a buff. Now I havent played mage in AGES and the only class pve wise I will ever play is Fire. Any idea if this buff is enough to compete? I have no idea what their current state is.

Thanks
Fire should be perfectly viable 4.3
It's simming to be neck-and-neck with Arcane if the changes go live, and will probably maintain that position even deep into T13 gear. Arcane might pull ahead at the highest ilvls of gear but Fire catches back up and surpasses Arcane when in Molten Fury range. At least those were my impressions.
Remember that by going Fire you will no longer be providing the 3% damage buff to your raid. This is mainly a problem in 10 player groups where you're less likely to have that buff available from someone else. That said, I expect Arcane will still end up being the spec of choice in 4.3.
But you bring 5% crit to whatever boss youre attacking.
It seems to me that they may have actually overdone the buffs to fire mages in 4.3. A slight reduction to the fireball buff, maybe down to 10-15% from 17% (I haven't done the math, so I'm not sure what exact value would be good) would probably put fire where it needs to be.