Firefox 3 Beta 3 is looking pretty nice, I decided to give it a test run because Portable Apps released it yesterday.
The UI was a little strange to me a first but it started to make more and more sense. Here’s an opening shot for first impressions.
The navigation buttons have been streamlined a bit, putting more emphasize on the back button, combining the history into one drop down and moving the Home button to the bookmarks toolbar.
One of the first things I noticed (and love) is the google suggest style address bar that queries your history based off titles and URLs.
They’ve also added a star that signifies whether you have bookmarked the page or not and it allows for a quick uninvasive way to edit your bookmark for the page.
While I find this a nice feature, I don’t believe it solves the problem of organizing your bookmarks… but rather encourages sloppiness by requiring a second click to pick a folder. I’m not sure how this will fair on the ‘mom test’.
Something I ~love~ though, is the ability to search addons without going to the mozilla site.
In conclusion, FF3 is a vast improvement that certainly increasing my web browsing efficiency. Great work guys, I look forward to the final release.
