Firefox 3 - features preview

Firefox 3 - features preview
Posted on June 3, 2007 - Filed Under Software |




We’re all waiting for the new Firefox 3 to be released ( and that would be somewhere later this year, see the schedule for more details ). But until then let’s see some of the features that would be available in the new release.

Malware protection

* By working together with Google the Firefox browser will be able to prevent you from entering sites that will potentially harm your computer. This will work in a similar way to how Firefox prevents you now from entering sites that could steal your personal information.

Location bar changes

* The way URLs are displayed in the address bar might change, the favicon for example might not be displayed at all. Other visual changes might be made as well, such as all text besides the main domain name (as in subdomain.domain.com/page.htm) to be grayed out.

Places

* This is supposed to be the new bookmarks and tagging system. The innovation lays in the way you can organize saved sites by using the above mentioned bookmarks or tags, and even store page visiting history for each site.

Private Browsing

* This one is expected by many of the people I know for a long, long time. When in Private mode the Firefox browser will not store any information of your browsing session ( that includes history, cookies, etc).

Coming soon

* There are other features on the developers map that were not detailed enough at this time but are most likely be part of Firefox 3. Here are some of them:
o Offline Web applications
o Improved password manager
o Microformat detection