The Best Firefox Yet
With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.
What’s So Great About Firefox 3?
The Web is all about innovation, and Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance.
Simply put, your online security is our top priority. Firefox includes strict anti-phishing and anti-malware measures, plus easy ways to tell the good guys from the bad like our new one-click site ID info. And, thanks to our open source process we have thousands of security experts around the globe working around the clock to keep you (and your personal information) safe.
In the end, it’s all about you being able to do what you need to do on the Web. And with features like built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom, nobody makes it easier, helps you work better or saves you more time than Firefox.
Everybody uses the Web differently, so why should your browser be exactly like the next guy’s? Whether you’re into chatting, cooking or coding, Firefox has more than 5,000 add-ons to help you customize it to fit your exact needs.
Download Firefox 3 . System requirements . Release notes
June 17th, 2008
We’re just over 12 hours until the start of the long-awaited Download Day! Our Guinness World Record attempt will start when Firefox 3 is officially launched at approximately 10:00 a.m. PDT (17:00 UTC) on Tuesday, June 17th.
At that time, please check out the official Download Day site to get Firefox 3 and for a map of worldwide downloads!
June 17th, 2008
After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, Mozilla is proud to announce that they’re ready. It is their expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser.
June 12th, 2008
The third Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. It contains a single change for Mac OS X users only; there is no change for users running previous Firefox Release Candidate versions on Windows or Linux. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed in the minutes of the Firefox 3 Planning Meetings, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
Testers can download the third Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.
June 12th, 2008
The second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
Testers can download the second Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.
For more info and links: blog.mozilla.com
June 5th, 2008
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
May 29th, 2008
The official presentation of the new, third version of Mozilla Firefox is scheduled for June 2008. “We decided to release the final version in June” said Mike Schropfer, vice president of Mozilla Corporation.
According to him, many users expect the release of the third version but there are hundreds of Firefox add-ons and projects and we must check them and prepare for official release. Schopfer points that Firefox RC1 is already out and it has been downloaded 1.5 million times.
The company do not eliminate the possibility of another Release Candidate before official Firefox 3.
“Browsers become more and more important applications because web pages become more and more sophisticated and bigger so the productivity and stability of browser are a great moment.”
May 22nd, 2008
The first Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
New features and changes in this milestone:
* Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
* Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
* Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatibility and stability.
* Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.
Testers can download the Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.
May 19th, 2008
Google has updated the iPhone version of Google Reader, its online web feed aggregator.
This is good news even if you don’t have an iPhone. Like other web apps designed for the iPhone interface, it fits very well in Firefox (and other browsers) sidebar.
And it’s pretty simple:
1. Open the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks…)
2. In Firefox 2, in the File menu, select New bookmark… In Firefox 3, press Organize in the toolbar and select New bookmark…
3. Enter a name, http://www.google.com/reader/i/ for location, and ensure to check Load this bookmark in the sidebar.
4. Press Save Changes and now you can select the bookmark to load Google Reader in the sidebar.
Similar tricks allow you to add other iPhone apps and Facebook Chat.
May 16th, 2008
Users who spend a fair share of their web time around social web sites and chat will be glad to meet the new Yoono 5, currently in private beta status.
Yoono 5 beta is a powerful Firefox extension, that integrates with several social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Piczo, Flickr and FriendFeed. Once you provide your credentials, you are able to see contacts in each network, their latest activities, posted photos and access to their respective messaging systems, post to Twitter or upload photos to Flickr.
It also supports several instant messaging networks including Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk and AIM. You can chat with buddies in any of these networks in different tabs, all within the same Yoono sidebar.
As previous versions, Yoono also inobtrusively provides YouTube videos, Flickr photos and web page recommendations related to the page you are currently viewing. It also identifies keywords and provides links at the top you can click to search Yoono for more related content.
A music widget provides a player in the same sidebar that serves music from either last.fm or the Shoutcast directory, which amount for a very wide variety of Internet radio.
Yet another widget, Web Notes, lets you save small web notes, links and images, mark them as good, bad or funny, rate them, organize them in folders, edit them with a simple rich text editor, blog them to one of the support blogging platforms (custom WordPress installation, Blogger, Live Journal, MySpace, Live Spaces, and Meta Weblog) and share them with your friends or the world.
The ability to undock the Web Notes (and any other) widget proved to be most helpful for blogging.
I must confess I have always been very skeptic about this kind of integrators but in the few days I’ve been using it, it has proved to be a real aid while adding more fun to web zapping.
The latest beta is compatible with Firefox 3 beta 5 as well as nightlies.
May 14th, 2008
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