The awesome bar also examines any tags users may have added to their bookmarks, another clever new addition. The new location bar, which Mozilla dubs the awesome bar, builds on Web browsers’ common autocomplete functions by guessing at your destination based on your bookmarks and user history. The new Firefox sports the program’s most Mac-like look and feel yet, with a sleek silver design and buttons that make it look like Safari ( )’s more futuristic cousin.
Firefox’s many customizable features are back, too, including dozens of invaluable third-party add-ons, like blog editor ScribeFire and code inspector Firebug.īuilding on these useful features, Firefox 3 adds a host of welcome improvements. The worst errors I noticed in my tests were some flickering in Flash video ads that changed size within the browser window, and one minor glitch in rendering a complex CSS trick.
Its top-notch Gecko rendering engine displays even the trickiest pages almost flawlessly, and the new version passes the Acid2 test for Web standards compliance with flying colors. However, users may not get all of the dramatic speed boosts its programmers promise.Įverything good about Firefox 2 ( ) is present in the new version. As powerful as ever and considerably more polished, Firefox 3 is an improvement on its useful but somewhat clunky predecessor in nearly every respect.
