February 14, 2008
Firefox 3 Beta 3 serves up pipin’ hot new features
Posted Feb. 14, ’08, 12:00 PM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Software » Updates
For those of you who like to be on the bleeding edge of browser technology, go and check out the latest beta release of Firefox. It’s just hit the virtual streets, and is frontin’ some fine new features. Beta 3 seems to sport a bunch new features since its last beta version, aptly named Beta 2.
Lifehacker listed a few of the new features:
• 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.
• 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.
• Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
• 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.
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Now if only it would honor the 'inactive' state correctly. Even when you are using another app, it appears as if it's the active application.
It makes using it alongside Safari very confusing.
Daniel: Yep, it's on the list for beta4. Fear not!
They did not seem to mention the ability to simply view pdf file inside of Firefox vs. downloading them to your desktop first!!
I don't know if it's a patent thing, but I *really* like the feature in Safari that dims the screen and highlights your search term. Would be awesome if Firefox could do that!
Having just downloaded it I wish I hadn't. Page scrolling 'overruns' and 'drags' when using two-fingered scrolling, making the app very frustrating to use for casual browsing. I use FF as my main browser, so will be returning to version 2 asap until this is fixed.
New look look great though, so looking fwd to the finished version.