Mozilla has released Firefox 3 Beta 3 today. Firefox version 3.0 ? Yeah, but it’s still in beta 3, Firefox 3.0 is now in the development stage and is expected to be released in early 2008. The current stable release is Firefox 2.0.0.12 (in the last post).
Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download. This is the eleventh developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.
Firefox 2 is my daily browser, I love this browser. According to wikipedia, Firefox had 16.98% of the recorded usage share of Web browsers as of January 2008, making it the second-most-popular browser in current use worldwide after Internet Explorer. Firefox uses the open-source Gecko layout engine, which implements some current Web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
There are many great features and plugins on Firefox. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and a search system that uses Google. Functions can be added through more than 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers; the popular one for tweaking internet speed is Fasterfox (you can read more in the TWEAK INTERNET SPEED category).
About Firefox 3 beta :
> On November 19, 2007, Firefox 3 Beta 1 was released.
> The second beta (Firefox 3 Beta 2) was released on December 18, 2007.
> Firefox 3 Beta 3 was released on February 12, 2008.
With at least four total beta releases planned, it is estimated that Firefox 3 will be released in early 2008.
Firefox 3 beta 3
Firefox 3 beta 3 looks more at home on Windows XP, Vista, OS X, and Linux (or at least Ubuntu). The new themes are still a work in progress, but users will notice redesigned icons and a slightly changed toolbar layout. For example, the backward and forward buttons in the Windows version have been combined into one button. At first we were a bit concerned, and then we realize how much more often we hit the back button than the forward button and we realized we were just scared of change. Plus, while this is the new default, users can easily separate the buttons.
The Mac and Linux versions now have native windows for file and text selection boxes and other menus. And the OS X version also includes Growl integration. Another nice new feature is that when you try to close multiple tabs or close a browser session with multiple tabs open, Firefox will ask if you want to save your session. Right now, you can only save a session if Firefox crashes or if you install an add-on like Session Fix.
> Improved in Firefox 3 Beta 3:
+ 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 that continue to increase page drawing speed in Beta 3. This release also features over 90 changes that improve performance over the previous beta.
+ Memory usage: Over 350 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more. Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation. Beta 3 includes more than 50 improvements to memory use over the previous beta.
+ Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
+ One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you’re connected to.
+ Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware.
+ Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
+ New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
+ Integration with Linux: Firefox’s default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
+ Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and spell-checker in web forms and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates.
+ Location bar & auto-complete: 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; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you’re looking for. New in Beta 3 is an improved search algorithm which calculates the recency and frequency of a visit to come up with a frecency score that is used to determine the most relevant results.
+ Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
More “What’s New” detail is available from mozilla.com release notes here.
> Download Firefox 3 beta 3 from Mozilla here. Available in more than 30 languages for Mac, Windows and Linux.
>> Download Firefox ( Latest STABLE Release ) here:
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I’m still using the stable release, firefox 2. Wow i’m looking forward to the final release…firefox 3!