Firefox 3 has been released

June 19, 2008

Firefox 3 has been released

If you decide to upgrade from Firefox 2 for the first release candidate of Firefox 3, you’ll notice improved performance, fewer memory leaks, a new and very interesting new features:

  • Select text batch - press Ctrl while selecting different blocks of text, like you can do in Microsoft Office
  • I’ve always liked about Notepad2 that can select a text and open the Find dialog to find your selection. Firefox 3 brings this feature to improve their already powerful find on the page.

Tip: Select some text and press Ctrl + G to find the next occurrence of that text.

  • Google Toolbar for IE 4 bookmarking made a very easy task: just press the button star marker to a web page and press again if you want to add or edit the title labels. The latest version of Google plug feature a little complicated, but Firefox 3 provided the initial concept and has changed the way you bookmark Web pages. In addition, you can now associate markers and labels to find the most visited bookmarks.
  • The address bar auto-complete URL and title pages, while trying to prioritize websites and frequently visited recently. “Dubbed the AwesomeBar, which lets you use the URL field of your browser to do a keyword search of its history and bookmarks. We no longer have to know the domain of the page you’re looking for - will coincide with the AwesomeBar what is’ Go to write (including multiple words!) Contrary to the URL, page titles and labels in your bookmarks and history, returning results ordered by frecency (an algorithm that combines the latest frequency +). And there only that, but the drop-down list results show that page favicon, the full title, URL, and whether they have been marked and / or labelling page in a rich format of two-line display. “
  • Turn off the plugins Add-ons dialog. That means you can now turn off the Flash or Windows Media Player “directly from Firefox, without having to install extensions as Flashblock.
  • If the OpenSearch current website uses a point of a search engine, Firefox displays a blue circle next to the search box. You can add the search engine to its list with just two clicks.
  • You can add Web applications as handlers protocols such as mailto. That means you can open all links of mail in Gmail without installing an extension if you follow these instructions. Hopefully in the next version of Firefox may also open other types of links to web applications (for example, open PDFs in PDFMeNot).
  • Establish permits for individual web sites: for example, can disable cookies or images on some sites that do not trust. Opera offers more fine-grained in options “edit preferences site,” but you may still be useful limited permissions Firefox (Tools> page information> tab permits).
  • Another feature already available in Opera, full-page zoom, has been included in Firefox 3 to allow the expansion of images and other objects. To return to zoom feature in Firefox 2, allow View> Zoom> Zoom text only.

Even if Mozilla does not release the final version of Firefox 3 RC1 is almost a final version-and could safely replace Firefox 2. There is also an unofficial portable version can be used before installing the application. While not all extensions have been updated to include support for Firefox 3, can disable the verification of compatibility.

However, Firefox 3 added some cool features, but do not overlook key issues such as performance or a better back-end for web history and bookmarks. The new interface and sometimes not-so impressive bar are two things that still have rough edges.

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