News Firefox 3 is Here!

[Widkidone]

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. This new platform includes more than 15,000 changes to improve performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.

One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping.

Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware.

New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown.

New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate.

Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.

Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.

Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.

Firefox 3
Release Notes

[weasel]

thx for the links and the release notes widkidone the allmighty

[Azrael]

very nice, I love the new features, they are very well thought out. Although I'll admit to not knowing when it come out as It seems my beta turn it's self into the final release :P. Great reporting as always.

[KillerSneak]

So anybody used it yet? How does it handle your system resources? is it still using/eating more RAM than IE? (running Vista x64 here)

[weasel]

i'm running it on xp64 works like a charm and it doesn't use much ram oh and ks i support the dutch soccerteam they are very good

[beezee]

Runs very well on my system. It seems to use a bit more system resources than IE. Maybe because it actually does more than IE ever could. I still need to do some tweaking and download some really good add-on's. But overall very impressed.

One thing though, and maybe I need to delve deeper to figure it out but I can't seem to get my Bookmarks to line up alphabetically unless I do it manually.

Oh and did I mention I hate IE...

[SuzyQ]

Thank you so much for posting that useful information on Firefox. I have used it in the past, and I have been considering using again. I some times have problems when i use IE, this will be a welcome addition. I like the Malware Protection that Firefox offers. I am planning on downloading it now!