Firefox 3 Beta 3… Pretty Sweet
Firefox, Freeware February 14th. 2008, 11:24amFirefox 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.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Firefox rules!!!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Hey Tyler. I’ve been testing Firefox 3 on one of my computers for a few weeks now. I like it, but I’ve found some really annoying quirks, mostly with dragging bookmarks around. I sent them some feedback to try and get these addressed. I wish more of my add-ons worked with it, though - I keep having to go back to Firefox 2 for the HTML Validator icon, which shows me if I’ve written valid code for my CMS. Still, it looks like a good update.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
Excellent review Tyler, definetely will upgrade my firefox when they finally released the full version and hope more and more and more IE users to change their browser into FOX! More easier to handle, more secure and help me savings alot of time while doing the web development process