Firefox 3 has been released!

Hello! There’s been so much time I do not post something on the blog… These last months have been so full of new things to do and a lot of new work to do, but I will get back to post, starting from now, with the official release of Firefox 3!

First things first, let’s go for the download day! I know it’s so close (already started) but let’s download Firefox 3 for the guiness record on software downloaded over 24h!! You can get more information about this here.

As soon as possible I will make a review about what Firefox 3 brough to us on this new version (with the 15,000 improvements) and me personal feeling about it. For now, the first thing I noticed is that the del.icio.us extension do not updated automatically when you run the browser for the first time.

With a little research I found this blog post that says it will prompt you with the upgrade (but if someone had the same problem that me, I will send the link to upgrade and not stop to use the extension) and links to some information about the improvements on the plugin (here’s the link).

In this link you can get the extension.

This is it for now.

Firefox 3 Beta 3

It’s a little old but Firefox 3 Beta 3 was released in february 12. I managed to download it and tested on my virtual machine (I’m a little paranoid with betas) and tried to see some of the improvements and new stuff.

The first thing that is noticable about the third version is the new theme that comes out of the box. It was visually improved (still I like the actual version default theme) and had some new functionalities. The back and forward buttons seems to have their history function merged, the address bar has now a button in the left to drag and create a link to the page, in the right part of it we have a star to bookmark the current web site and the auto-complete web site address now inform us if it is bookmarked and other informations about the site.

There are some major upgrades on security like anti virus integration (for the happiness of windows users), Web Forgery Protection, malware protection and now firefox integrates with Vista Parental Control. For the status bar, we can now see download information on it, simplifying the download management.

Something that hooked up my attention was the integration of history and bookmark allowing us to search directly from both on auto-complete and sorting it based on visit frequency. It’s now possible to bookmark something with tags!

The Smart bookmarks button on the bookmark toolbar allows us to locate the most visited, the recent bookmarked and recent tags.

I’ve read in the release notes that the speed was improved and the memory usage was optimized but didn’t notice it, maybe I need to test it a little more… :)

That’s my impressions from the Firefox 3 Beta 3 plus some information that I read from the release notes. But it would be cool that you take your own impression from it using and sharing some problem you find with the mozilla community.

You can download it from this link and this other has informations about system requeriments.

Have fun!