Jul 0823
I Love Firefox 3!
Firefox 3 launched June 18 and over 8 million people downloaded the new version. As of July 2, there were 28,340,281 total downloads!
I procrastinated at first but after a few weeks, I finally clicked on the download link. And boy, am I glad I did! Let me tell you why:
- Firefox 2.0.0.16 was bogging down my entire laptop (which had 4MB of RAM) when I had 20+ tabs open. 20 tabs? Some of you may think I deserved a slow browser for having that many tabs open. But I always have my address book, calendar, intranet, to do list, NY Times, Twitter, Facebook, Matrix Group Web site and Google analytics open, so 20 is nothing by the time 10:00am rolls around.
- I love, love, love how I can simply type a word or two of a site into the URL bar and Firefox presents a list of possible options, including the title and URL.
- The back button is big and prominent, even bigger than the forward button.
- If I close a tab by mistake, I can find the site quickly by going to History to Show All History or Recently Closed Tabs.
- The Password Manager is more graceful, showing up in a bar above the page, allowing me to remember, not now or never on this site.
- I’m told that Firefox is more secure than ever, protecting me from phishing sites and evil scripts on Web sites.
