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Firefox 3 – The New Look (And Feel) Of Firefox

14 July 2008 290 views 9 Comments



This week is Firefox week in xptricks.net. We will post many reviews and tips about Firefox and other browsers, so stay tuned. Here is the complete guide to this week’s posts. You might find it handy to bookmark us (Ctrl + D) or subscribe to our feed.

Lets start off with our review of Firefox 3.

Firefox 3 logoFirefox 3 is the latest (and best) version of the worlds most popular browser. The Mozilla Team has managed to fix almost all of Firefox 2’s errors and problems and Firefox 3 is almost as good as a browser can get. Both design and functionality have improved and the options as an open source browser are literally limitless.

Firefox 3 Review - xptricks.netThe first thing you notice after installing, are the new icons at the top-left of the screen. Everything is sharper and even simpler than before. Except, of course, for the green, glassy back/forward buttons (blue on Vista). They have been rounded, pushed together and slapped into a “keyhole” in the interface. Rather Internet Explorer-ish, I must say. Quite pretty, nevertheless.

There have also been other significant changes to the Firefox UI. For example, the Go button has been removed (although it reappears while typing an address) and the Bookmark this and Subscribe to this have conveniently replaced it. The favicon of a website is now in a separate box at the left of the address bar. Mine, as you can see, is a Windows flag.

Browsing History and Bookmarking have also been redesigned, and now, when you start typing an address, you get a much smarter list of previously visited (or bookmarked) sites.

There have been numerous changes under the bonnet. You might not see them but you’ll probably notice that Firefox has got a lot faster and smarter since the update. Firefox 2’s biggest mistake – a weird solution for saving browsed images and sites that takes up a hell of a lot of disk space – has of course been fixed as well.

Rating:

With most problems redesigned or replaced, the world’s best browser is now even better. I’d love to give it 5 and a half.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post, “10 Reasons Why Firefox and Opera Are Better Than Internet Explorer.“

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9 Comments »

  • Firefox week | Cool Windows XP tricks, tutorials and software reviews. (author) said:

    [...] 14th: Firefox 3 – The New Look OF Firefox. We’ll start off nice and big with our review of the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. [...]

    # 14 July 2008 at 10:13 pm
  • Bouncer said:

    is that 5 n a half total out of 10??

    I will give FF 8/10 as it works best for me

    now the image drag feature is the best which I have ever seen…makes it soo easy to manage my image blog

    # 25 July 2008 at 12:55 am
  • Delaware Valley Web Report » Firefox 3 :: Review (author) said:

    [...] The New Look and Feel of Firefox [...]

    # 26 July 2008 at 10:04 pm
  • Eerik said:

    To Bouncer:

    I actually meant 5 and a half out of 5, can’t find anything wrong with Firefox… :D

    # 30 July 2008 at 11:24 am
  • Apex Professionals said:

    It’s still a cool tip and proof that one learns something on every day.. Firefox 3 UI is actually quite attractive… It is unfortunately inconsistent, however, once you move past the main browser window..

    # 14 April 2009 at 8:32 am
  • warrior custom golf said:

    Firefox 3 for web & application developers is drawing of text by taking use of canvas…There is the support for the latest attributes which is called as HTML 5 active Element and has Focus in Firefox 3…

    # 17 April 2009 at 4:51 pm
  • Fairfield Inspection said:

    Really nice post about Firefox 3… Firefox 3 for web & application developers is drawing of text by taking use of canvas…There is the support for the latest attributes which is called as HTML 5 active Element and has Focus in Firefox 3…

    # 22 April 2009 at 4:09 am
  • Wallpapers,widescreen wallpapers said:

    Now the image drag feature is the best which I have ever seen…makes it so easy to manage my image blog. It is unfortunately inconsistent, however, once you move past the main browser window.It’s still a cool tip and proof that one learns something on every day. Firefox 3 UI is actually quite attractive

    # 30 April 2009 at 9:07 am
  • Piano (author) said:

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    # 10 November 2009 at 11:31 pm

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