Submitted by ggarron on Sat, 11/24/2007 - 16:05
Firefox Beta 3 has been released some days ago, I have installed it and made a little comparison with Firefox 2.0 to see some of the changes.
Here I am comparing them with screen shots, side by side when that is possible, because there are some features in 3 that are not present in 2.
Zooming
When you zoom with firefox 2 you can only zoom the text and not the images, but now with Firefox 3 the images are also zoomed, so you can zoom a page with text and images, or only images pages.
Firefox 2
Firefox 3Bookmarking
One of the biggest changes on Firefox 3 is the way it manage bookmarks, and its interface also changed.
Firefox 2
Firefox 3Check out that now, it s possible to use tags, what I have tried was to import my delicious directly to Firefox, to my concern tags were not imported, maybe a mistake considering how many people are using delicious out there.
By the way, and talking about delicious there is not yet a plugin for it, by the time I am writing this post, there is one for stumbleupon just released yesterday.
Other changes to bookmarking includes the stars, now as soon as you start typing the address you want to visit and when the visited (suggested) URIs appear you can easily check which one is already on your bookmarks, because of the star near to the URI.
Firefox 3And once you are visiting a page, if you do not want to use the shortcut Ctrl+D, you can just click on the star near to the URI, and a dialog box will be displayed so you can easily add that page to your bookmarks.
Firefox 3Places
This is something new in Firefox 3, that does not even exist in Firefox 2, it is a menu located upper left and as you can see, it helps you navigate in your "favorite" pages, the most visited, the most used tags, the recently visited, etc.
Firefox 3Password remembering
The dialog box offering to remember your passwords now appears located in other position it certainly looks better, but I do miss the "not now" option, don't you?
Update: Thanks for all of you that made me find it (sorry)
Firefox 3
Firefox 2Add-ons
The add-ons dialog box (Tools-Add-ons) now has another option, which is Plugins, where you can manage the plugins installed on your Firefox, really a good addition.
Firefox 3
Firefox 2Page Info
The page info dialog box (Tools->Page Info, or Ctrl+I) now has a real good option which is RSS discover, so you can easily find the rss links on the page to subscribe to it.
Firefox 3
Firefox 2Update: To avoid the Digg Effect I had to disable the post of comments, and enable the cache of Drupal, thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your visit
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I __HATE___ the so called Awesome Bar. I even switched back to firefox 2 for that reason. This is a lose of space: Title and website url are on 2 different lines. But hey, it is completion, so I am trying to find in my history someting I already know what it is about. So the TITLE is USELESS.
The switch to a better browser is to enhance my productivity. Today, I lose half a day parsing and editing about:config only to find they remove the ability to go back to old toolbar (with .richResults=false).