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5 Things You Will Love About Firefox 3
Published December 30th, 2007 in Browser Security, Firefox
New versions of favorite applications are always a little tricky; you want to keep up with the times without fixing what ain’t broke. With that in mind, I took a look at the newly released Firefox 3 Beta 2 to see what we can look forward to when the final version ships in 2008.
Although the basic look of the browser hasn’t changed, there are actually quite a few new features coming. (For a complete list, you can check out Mozilla’s release notes.) Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious — at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection and version checks of its add-ons; and offline support for suitably coded Web applications. 5 Things You’ll Love About Firefox 3
