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:
- Offline Web applications
- Improved password manager
- Microformat detection
This is it for now and keep posted for new updates on the development process.
6-4-2007 21:32:40
Private browsing? Hello Youporn.com!
6-4-2007 21:48:46
“Private Browsing
* This one is expected by many of the people”
No shit! I wonder why. lol
6-4-2007 21:54:06
This sounds wonderful
6-4-2007 21:57:02
All you think about is porn.
What about those other guys that are trying to get a decent living by hacking and stealing credit cards?
6-4-2007 22:35:56
They already got the firefox that leaves no trail its called as stand alone browser you use it of a cd no trail left.
6-4-2007 22:44:43
One other thing to point out no matter what kind of a browser or privacy tool you use your ISP can see what you are doing if they choose to. It is already happening in uk and places where ISP must by law keep 6 months worth of Internet records for each user. Guess what it slowly coming to the shores of North America.
6-4-2007 23:23:59
Now the islamists can go on their bomb making websites without leaving any evidence behind!
6-4-2007 23:36:12
lol no shit
6-5-2007 01:09:46
i am the other guy who stills passwords and credit cards
6-5-2007 01:22:27
Hey, and welcome to TrendPlex then
6-5-2007 09:31:32
@steven (not steven price)
What did you hack the dictionary?
6-5-2007 10:31:15
lmao @ jonathan
6-5-2007 19:44:08
with google? its gonna be spying on us. ANd whats to stop google blocking political sites, IT says have malicious code? dodgy
6-5-2007 21:10:34
agrees in part with tobay, but i would hope that they would give you the choice to go in if you wanted
6-6-2007 03:36:30
i love to use firefox, as its the underdog, but why is firefox in bed with google (with a bit of yahoo on the side). i feel that firefox favours google (i.e. the start up page on first-boot and the large numbers of extensions that are googlised).
i know google is good at what it does, but i hear ask-.-com is innovating a new “3d” display for the results (3d is a term for the three columns for web-blog-other results hits.
i would like to see extensions that allow other search engine “options”…. or maybe im not looking in the right places.
maxi
6-6-2007 07:52:53
You guys are all NERDS!!!
6-6-2007 14:33:12
For no-trace browsing there’s the Stealther add-on for FF2.
6-7-2007 03:54:03
Lol @ Kristen!
6-13-2007 03:18:53
Looks interesting, but a lot of the new features can already be accessed through extensions. The Mozilla ones will probably be better, though.
6-13-2007 05:32:45
Well I JUST WANT TO SEE A REAL ZOOM plugin in ff3
& FIXING MAJOR problems regarding viewing forums (almost a lot of them)
6-14-2007 11:04:05
I’m a bit put off by all the added ‘features’ in FF3, and already in FF2. Sure, it’s nothing over the top, but I really don’t think we need most of these when the FF community already offers extensions for most of these.
I would like to hear more about work being done on the page rendering engine and fixing bugs such as the memory leak. (Which has sadly seemed to return in FF2)
As long as we’re talking about features, though, the ability to combine multiple tabs into different frames on a new page would be nice under certain circumstances.
6-17-2007 13:21:29
a pile of moontering pants
6-17-2007 22:49:50
Well, I don’t like how they might want to remove the favicon. I think it is part of the web pages identity and should be visible.
Still, can’t wait for the release!