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Program Information:
File Name: Firefox 3
File Size: 7.2 MB
Date Released: 17 June, 2008System Requirements: 32-Bit versions
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000
64-Bit Versions
- Windows Vista x64
- Windows XP x64
Download Firefox 3:
What's New in Firefox 3: Version History of Firefox 3
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.
Firefox 3 is built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under
the hood to offer website
and Firefox add-on developers.
More Secure
- 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. Identity verification is prominently displayed
and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV)
SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show
the name of the company you\'re connected to. (Try it here!)
- Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive
at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other
malware. (Try it here!)
- New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as
web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
- New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when
Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
- Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks
add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
- 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.
- Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and
other restricted content to a single domain.
- Better protection against
cross-site JSON data leaks.
Easier to Use
- Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old
password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
- Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed
making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer
clicks.
- New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much
easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the
name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and
time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
- Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after
restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
- Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the
new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the
layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings
will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
- Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
- Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new
tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
- Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on
exit.
- Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in
tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
- Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple
resizer item.
- Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made
with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in \"word-by-word\" mode;
triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
- Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current
selection.
- Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on
Manager.
- Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses
native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
- Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and
other user interface elements look like a native OS X application.
Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications
of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward
control make it even easier to move between web pages.
- Integration with Linux: Firefox\'s default icons, buttons, and menu
styles now use the native GTK theme.
More Personal
- Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a
single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
- Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by
topic.
- Smart 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. Results are returned according to their
a combination of frequency, and recency of visits to that page, ensuring that
you\'re seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further
tunes the results to your patterns!
- Library: view, organize and search through your bookmarks, tags and browsing
history using the new Library window. Create or restore full backups of this
data whenever with a few clicks.
- Smart Bookmark Folders: quickly access your most visited bookmarks from the
toolbar, or recently bookmarked and tagged pages from the bookmark menu. Create
your own Smart Bookmark Folders by saving a search query in the Library.
- Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite
webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling
mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other
protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as
handlers with Firefox).
- Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can
now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands
of Add-ons available from our community
add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of
recommended Add-ons is shown.
- Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane
provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and
protocol schemes.
Improved Platform for Developers
- New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering
architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well
as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
- Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in
about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images
with embedded color profiles.
- Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline
functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their
site for this feature to be available to users).
- A more complete overview of Firefox 3
for developers is available for website and add-on developers.
Improved Performance
- Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided
optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance.
Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office
run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular
SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
- Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount
of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session.
Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new
memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and
caching strategies have been tuned.
- Reliability: A user\'s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences
are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent
data loss even if their system crashes.
About: Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. The browser began as a fork of the Navigator component of the Mozilla Application Suite; Firefox has since become the foundation's main development focus (along with its Thunderbird mail and news client), and has replaced the Mozilla Suite as their official main software release.
Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers, the most popular of which include the NoScript JavaScript disabling utility, Tab Mix Plus customizer, FoxyTunes media player control toolbar, Adblock Plus ad blocking utility, StumbleUpon (website discovery), Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (bookmark synchronizer), DownThemAll! download enhancer, and Web Developer toolbar.
Firefox Features:
- Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
- Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
- View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
- Find the sites you love in seconds—enter a term for instant matches that make sense.
- Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
- See any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.
- Browse with a Firefox that’s integrated into your computer’s operating system.
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