For fans of Firefox, Mozilla’s increasingly popular multi-platform Web browser, today is a big day indeed: It’s the official launch of Firefox 3 (Windows only — Mac and Linux releases are imminent). So, what’s new? What’s exciting? What’s the big deal?
For starters, the developers claim Firefox 3 is significantly faster than both 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7. That’s always good. The new Places Organizer lets you tag, manage, and search bookmarks — a big improvement over the old bookmark manager. Firefox 3 also delivers improved security features, better password management, resumable downloads, and an auto-completing location bar:
Type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you’re looking for.
You can see the full list of Firefox 3’s new goodies on Mozilla’s site. You might also want to check out Lifehacker’s Top 10 Firefox 3 Features.
There is a case pending in EU economical court against Microsoft and it seems like in near future Windows OS will be sold without Internet Explorer. Mozilla and European consumer commission accusing Microsoft of product tying.
Mozilla is a part of Software As A Service or Web 2.0 generation of softwares. It's distributed for free over the net and independent programmers can create new features and share it with others. Because of that it became the most popular internet browser and aiming to get a bigger share.
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