Fuel Your Anticipation - Firefox 3 On June 17th
While the Firefox Release Candidate 3 just came out today with minor updates, Mozilla announced the final release for June 17th. A world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours is also arranged.
Some of my favourite new features:
- Full page zoom. From the View menu and using keyboard shortcuts, you can now zoom in and out on the content of entire pages — this scales not just the text but the layout and images as well.
- Tags. You can now associate keywords with your bookmarks to easily sort them by topic.
- Offline support. Web applications can take advantage of new features to support being used even when you don’t have an Internet connection.
- Reliability. Firefox 3 now stores bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences in a transactionally secure database format. This means your data is protected against loss even if your system crashes.
- Speed. Firefox 3 has gotten a performance boost by completely replacing the part of the software that handles drawing to your screen, as well as to how page layout work is handled.
- Memory use reduced. Firefox 3 is more memory efficient than ever, with over 300 memory “leak” bugs fixed and new features to help automatically locate and dispose of leaked memory blocks.
- more …
First tech-reviews about Firefox 3 are full of praise but also mention the memory-eating performance.
What are your experiences, did you expect more? Are you still scared to download?
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Zoom is now like the one Opera, on digitarald.de is has nearly the same result. I'm not sure if its better than the IE approach to scale only relative CSS-sizes (em, %). More CSS3 support has my vote! But at least they don't focus on totally useless features like IE8.
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Using FF3RC3 in production now, and extensions like **FireBug** and others seem usable enough for daily development.
The only annoying part is how it handles **improperly signed SSL certificates**, as a sysadmin I use a lot of hardware with *self-signed certificates*, shared certificates and stuff like that, meaning I have to make a profile for each device sharing the same certificate.
For the rest, I like it :-)
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**Full page zoom** I kind of have some hard times understanding Mozilla's approach here. They implement some sort of fancy and mostly their *scale-manager* instead of simply implementing **CSS transforms** and a) using that as the UI enhancement b) updating their CSS3 support.
Anyway I'm looking forward to see the **Offline support** in actions, as far as I'm aware Google Docs will use this functionality sometime very soon.