I thought I would check out to see what the latest Firefox has in store. I downloaded the latest Firefox 3.03b beta
A few things I have noticed after playing around -
- When I goto Google Email, it does not freeze and crash! Ya!! I have redownloaded, reinstalled, disabled all add ons and still could not get Firefox to quit crashing. Firefox 3 is not crashing!
- Disable CSS Quickly by clicking View | Page Style | No Stle - Great for Web Developers testing CSS and also disabling for accessibility issues. No need to download a seperate program to disable cssin a few clicks.
- It is titled "Minefield"
- When you close the browser and have tabs open, it asks you if you want to open the tabs on the next start
- Keyboard navigation of webpages via TAB broken (See link to bug)
- The new HTML 5 activeElement and hasFocus attributes are supported
- The display property’s inline-block and inline-table values are now implemented
- Firefox 3 offers JavaScript 1.8
- Supports the animated PNG (APNG) image format
- Unified bookmarks and history organizer
- You can now associate keywords with your bookmarks
- Opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs instead of replacing the existing ones
- Like IE, you can now use FULL Page view - greater than maximize (f11)
- Improved Download Manager
- Built In Antivirus
- Protection from pages that might have malware
- Memory usages reduced with "over 300 memory "leak" bugs fixed and new features to help automatically locate and dispose of leaked memory blocks"
- Improved speed (drawing and redrawing rates)
So far, so good. I like it! Time will tell how it holds up in the end and how it handles web development
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I have been using Mozilla’s Firefox for the last few years. I have seen it get better and better too. With the new Release Candidate available for download now, and the Beta about to become available at this week, I thought I would give the newest version a try.
My first reaction.. it seemed a little faster loading up WebPages. My second reaction? It is a LOT faster to load up WebPages.!
Move over IE, you have just been dropped.
My IE has been crashing more and more lately. So, I tried to download the latest IE. Considering my IE freezes up about every time I launch it, that made it sort of hard to download. I finally got it, but when I tried to install IE, I got a message saying that a newer version of IE was already installed and setup would discontinue.
HUH??
I know I did the IE 7.0 side by side with IE 6, but that was a few reformats ago. I have not updated IE for at least a couple of months.
So why do I get an error saying a newer version is installed? Oh well. Forget IE. Back to FireFox. I use it more than IE anyway.
So, I see today that Firefox RC3 is up for grabs. So, I download it. And, I LOVE it!
Not only does it load WebPages up super fast (Like it should be on a 5.0 DSL connection) It even has some new features in it. This time around, there is an anti-phishing tool. This is supposed to warn you when you are on a site that could possibly be a scam. It can check a local list or it can check Google.
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