Firefox 3 hits the shelves
Well, not shelves exactly, but its arrived. Mozilla have tested the new firefox with everything they can throw at it and it’s been moved out of beta testing and its now available to download to everyone. They’re pretty conifident its gonna be the most downloaded thing on the interweb that they’ve got the guiness world record people in to get involved with firefox download day! pretty smart advertising ploy!
So what’s new?
More Secure - They’ve spent a lot of time, and probably effort, into increasing they’re already pretty secure browser, so there’s much less chance of being attacked!
One click bookmarking - Great if you bookmark A LOT, easy to tag and organise your bookmarks.
Smart Location Bar - a tool that works with your browser history to help you get to the right site quicker, sounds pretty basic, but its quite clever really, it can use content as well as addresses to work out where to go
Its a shed load faster - self explanitory but definatley worth a mention.
There’s much more but my fingers are starting to get tired.
One thing remains to be said though, if you use firefox a lot, for work and what not, its probably best to hold off on the downloads until all the add-ons have been updated, otherwise you might be in a tad of bother!
You forgot to mention one thing, that within 5 hours of it being launched, someone found an exploit in the browser. Personally, I believe that exploits are a M$ creation, so surely they have a spy in their midst!!
Alex | June 20th, 2008 | 1:48 pm