Download Firefox 3 Beta 1: More Secure and Personal
November 22nd, 2007The latest version of the Firefox 3 series is now available for public download. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is powered with a range of very useful features, more web security, better performance and an improved platform for developers.
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a developer preview release and is useful for web developers and firefox testers to send feedback before the final version of Firefox 3 will be released to the public. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform with some major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability
I went through the release notes and found some interesting facts
- One click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site.
- Malware Protection: warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware.
- New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown.
- Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
- Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
- Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
- Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
- Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
- New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files.
- Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
- Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images.
- Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
- Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
- Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
- Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in Beta 1
- Memory usage: Over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged
Download Firefox 3 Beta 1 today and see the new features. The official current version for public release is Firefox 2.0.0.9.
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I downloaded an I’ve been using it.
It seems alright so far, some adjustments but so far just minor as e.g. the bookmark pop up leads to confusion as it shows “delete” on the left side and “Done” on the right,
Also most of plugins/add-ons are not ready for the new version, as ed.g. Google Toolbar.
If you’ve got many plugins already running wait bit more for upgrade.
Cheers
Lucio
The results for me have been mixed. i guess it will be better once final version is launched. Anyway, I’ll be getting out of FF2 for sure!
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