Woot! The new version of Firefox -- Firefox 3 -- is available for download today!
It's packed with all kinds of great stuff, including a new Smart Location Bar that has already been dubbed the "AwesomeBar."
Affectionately nicknamed the “AwesomeBar”, the new Smart Location Bar lets you use the URL field of your browser to do a keyword search of your history and bookmarks. You no longer have to remember the domain of the page you’re looking for — the Smart Location Bar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted according to an algorithm that combines frequency and recency.Learn more about the Awesome Bar and other new features here.
The Smart Location Bar results also show pages’ favicons, full titles, URLs, and whether you have bookmarked or tagged the site previously. While the change from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 can be a little jarring for some, once you’ve used the Smart Location Bar for a while, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
DISCLAIMER: This is new software. Many people recommend holding off on new software until the developer has had time to address bugs/exploits/problems. Me, I'm going to install it as soon as it's available. Others -- especially neophytes -- might want want to wait. Scaredy cats.
WARNING: Firefox 3 is a bit of a big deal, so keep in mind that their servers are getting slammed today. It might be a while until you can actually connect to a server and download Firefox 3.
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4 comments:
ooooooooooh it is nice
I've been working with the nightly builds (bleeding edge—not tested at all!) for a couple of months now, and I've experienced almost zero bugs in that time.
Word is, the final release is actually their 3rd "release candidate," meaning nobody found any bugs that needed to be fixed in that version. So it's probably pretty durned stable. :)
I'm liking this. I need to reinstall the Tiny Menu extension and BugMeNot, but it's pretty nice.
I'd like to delve into the better bookmark manager sometime soon, too.
Oh, and the visual refresh is nice on XP and Vista. I haven't had a chance to fire up my Ubuntu boxes lately, but I'm sure it looks good there as well.
There's some pretty cool tricks that FF3 does; maybe I'll get into them in a future Tuesday's Tech Tip.
I like it and I like it a lot!
Thanks Jay!
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