Mozilla Firefox 3.0 beta 3
Months have passed since Mozilla promised to release Firefox 3.0. The company just launched its third beta candidate of the browser. This indicates that Mozilla is well on its way. While Mozilla obviously will take its time, and stick to perfecting the fourth beta candidate, the third beta looks much more like a finished candidate than the second one. The first beta focused on speed and leanness, and surprised testers with visibly faster page loads than the current generation Mozilla, Opera, Apple, and Microsoft browsers. The next beta maintained this new speed while beefing up security with a number of key improvements and some minor user interface modifications.
The third beta has delivered substantial user interface changes, which for the most part seem to make browsing much more comfortable. The new bookmark tool built into the URL bar has been tweaked to be much more intuitive.
A number of graphical changes have also occurred among these is a new “keyhole look” for the backward and forward button, in which a large circular backward button rests snugly beside a smaller curved forward button. The two separate navigation dropdowns for the buttons, which appeared in all previous versions of Mozilla, have been fused into a single drop down, offering a full history.
The tabbing interface now allows you to drag and drop tabs between windows, a seemingly natural, but until now unsupported, feature. The status bar also has an added download indicator, which gives you a quick visual update on your downloads. The URL auto completion algorithm has been significantly improved, allowing smarter searches that help you go back to pages you frequently visit, but it don`t looks very well.
A key new feature is the inclusion of a built in add-on manager. Now users can use it to search, find, and install add-ons without going to the add-on page on Mozilla`s website.
The only thing I don`t like is that the interface don’t looks more stylish, it’s not very attractive when you look at it but if you install a good theme, this minus disappears.
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