Mozilla Firefox 3 Overzicht

Gepost op 24 Juni, 2008 in 5:45 am

Op 17 Juni 2008, trok Mozilla definitief Firefox 3 uit Bèta, waarbij wat, naar mijn mening wordt vrijgegeven, waarschijnlijk beste browser, ooit is.

Ik houd van Firefox. Let’ s wordt dat rechtstreeks van het eigenlijke begin. Me en Firefox 2 kregen samen door heel wat ruwe tijden, tot de Safari ons definitief scheidde, en werden mijn browser van keus. Na dat volgde ik angstig FF3’ s reis, die het de hoopt zou terugnemen wat het met recht bezat; mijn “ Gebrek Internet Browser” groef. En het heeft.

I gave up FF2 for Safari for one primary reason, speed. I said in my Safari review that Safari ousted FF2 from the Speed throne. After using FF3 since its release, and after a lot of self-debate, I can honestly say this: the King is back. Firefox is once again the fastest browser out there.

Something I haven’t mentioned yet is that FF3 actually has a different interface for every platform. For instance, the above screenshots were taken on Vista, but on Mac OS X, FF3 would look like this:

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Nifty huh? This was done to provide an interface that was as close as possible to the interface of the Operating System it was being used on.

The Library is a brand new feature that is a central location to handle all your history and bookmarks.

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As you can see, It looks eerily like Windows Media Player 11 on Vista. You can even search through history using the search bar that’s been built in.

The Caveats

Everything has to have a flip-side. As does FF3. Thankfully, the flip-side itself is so small that its almost non-existent.

What irritated me the most about FF3 was the fact that it maintains the same font rendering as FF2. I actually prefer the darker, more prominent font rendering provided by Safari. But that’s just a matter of personal preference. Take a look at the image below to get what I’m driving at.

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One other thing is that a few of your old Plugins may not work. But considering how important Plugins are to the Firefox experience, this is going to be remedied soon enough. Heck, a lot of the old Plugins already work with FF3.

Also, FF3 is not compatible with older OSes such as Windows 98 and ME, and Mac OSX 10.2.

Conclusion

FF3 is everything it promised to be. Faster, more Secure, and loaded with useful new features. There is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t at the very least give FF3 a try. You can download it here.

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2 Responses to “Mozilla Firefox 3 Review”

  1. ben said on : June 25th, 2008 at 12:41 am

    being an avid XP user who have not used Vista yet, the FF3 introduced me to the “Awesome Bar” - which is really awesome in my opinion. My only complaint with Firefox from version 1 to 3 is that eats too much memory - this page for example takes up more than 70Mb of my RAM! I don’t believe they need that much of RAM to cache and process this single page. It also took me more than 1 restart to be able to install it - something is wrong with the installer.

    Still with those given hassles, FF is still the best browser for me. It’s clean and fast and allows for more great plugins like cooliris! Also if you are a web developer, its feature to show all errors and warnings of a website is a very handy utility (click Tools > Error Console).


  2. bart said on : June 25th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    I’m sorry to see the AVG Free 8.0 Linkscanner not being compatible with FF 3.0. I found it a very usefull tool, and hope it will return.


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