Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 - Linux Magazine Online

Conclusions

Firefox 3 made a good impression with new features, such as improved phishing protection (Figure 6) and easier installation of add-ons that do not originate from Mozilla's add-on page. The developers have introduced further improvements with Beta 4 [14]. Firefox 3 looks likely to have support for the Internet keys on multimedia keyboards and will have improved support for Gnome session management.

Figure 6: The new Firefox offers improved phishing protection.

Overall, Firefox 3 is a critical component of the Linux desktop. In the future, the software will integrate almost seamlessly, at the same time adding a number of convenient functions. Users who prefer the KDE desktop will be disappointed – Firefox is yet another project that has decided in favor of Gtk.

Infos

Firefox roadmap: http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseRoadmap
Firefox download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Places system: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places
Places API: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Places
Acid2 browser test: http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/
Cairo (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)#Mozilla
Mozilla and Qt: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297788
Nightly builds: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nighly/latest-trunk/
Firefox with Gtk pring dialog: http://ventorsblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/print-me-print-me-print-me-man-after.html
CSS performance test: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/csstest.html
Load Time Analyzer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3371
Test table: http://howtocreate.co.uk/jslibs/oldindex.php
JS performance test: http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
Firefox Beta 4: http://ventnorsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/beta-4-quickies.html

The Author

Christoph Langner is a big fan of Linux as well as a computer administrator at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is currently working in the field of software test management.

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