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Information Technology News Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes!
Information Technology News Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes! | Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 13 February 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Mozilla has detailed some of the 1300 changes you’ll find in the latest beta, but don’t worry, we’re only going to list the most important ones they singled out here – not all 1300! Featured Whitepaper
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There’s the ‘One-click site info’ feature, where you click the ‘site icon’ in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. There’s also built-in malware protection which ‘warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware’. Next up is improved ease of use. Here we find a new download manager which Mozilla says makes it ‘much easier to locate downloaded files, and displays the file's source’. Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools, while Firefox 3.0’s new ‘native look and feel’ means that ‘new icons, themes and new platform-specific features make Firefox 3 look like a native application on all major operating systems’. Then there’s the ‘more personal’ section. Here we start with a new ‘star icon’, which lets you quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click, while a second click lets you file and tag them. A built-in ‘tags’ feature lets you associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic. A new ‘smart location bar & auto-complete’ feature lets you ‘type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks’, while a new display ‘makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for’. There’s also an ‘improved search algorithm’ within which ‘calculates the recency and frequency of a visit’ to come up with a frecency score (sic) that is used to ‘determine the most relevant results’. For those that love their Firefox add-ons, the add-in manager ‘can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website’. So, what about that improved performance we’ve been promised? Please read onto page 3! |
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