Planned features for Firefox 3
In today’s Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) meeting, developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year.
Among the list of mandatory requirements, read, what is the most likely to be included in Firefox 3 we have:
- Improved interaction with Add-ons: clearer, more coherent language; less steps to install; more visible way to configure add-ons, probably to be moved back to the general Options window, which I hope deeply; more noticeable alerts when updates are available; a permanent restart Firefox button.
- Support for remote bookmarks, bookmarks and history annotation.
- Files could be handled by web services. If I am reading this correctly, this could mean you would be able to click on an attached document and open it with something like Writely or Google Documents. And perhaps, as I asked Santa, the ability to redirect mailto: links to web email services.
- A much needed print support to prevent cut paragraphs and true WYSIWYG.
- The much requested MSI installer which will be a much welcomed improvement for IT administrators as it will ease deployment and updating of Firefox across a company.
- In the security front: support for Microsoft CardSpace and OpenID (check tomorrow’s article for more coverage on this). Smarter credentials handling.
- Airbag, the Google backed open source crash reporting tool will replace currently licensed TalkBack.
Among the highly desirable requirements:
- A private web browsing mode. I guess this would mean no cache, history, password or entered form information storage.
- Save web pages as PDF files, integrated with history. That would be just awesome.
- Support pause/resume downloads across sessions.
- Make Firefox help accessible only while online. Not sure how good and idea this is.
- Microformats support.
Nice to have:
- Unified bookmarks/history. Does this mean no Places?
- Support for Windows Vista parental controls. I really hope this one goes up in the priority list. This would be the first concrete downer for Firefox when confronted with Internet Explorer 7.
- Tab grouping and expose. This sounds like Internet Explorer 7 Quick Tabs or the foxPose extension.
- Windows Group Policy. Another blessing for IT administrators.
- Allow add-ons to be installed without rebooting Firefox.
- Simplified interface to manage downloads. Can it be simpler? Maybe exposing commands currently placed in the context menu.
You can read the complete Firefox 3 requirements at Mozilla Wiki.
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thomas
• improved fonts rendering ?
Here’s an interesting post about Gecko’s new Cairo Graphics library:
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/cairo-beats-safari
thomas dickerson
why the bloody hell would you integrate OS specific capabilities with the main browser? make a single extension to take care of that….
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pd
I did not think it was possible to do a major version number release with less features than 2. However it looks like they are going to find a way.
2 had spell checking and long overdue completion of the search function (sorting, add remove).
3 looks like it will have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the way of new features. It looks like a administration point release.
The only people who will be interested are IT administrators and delusional parents who think that parental controls work.
What an absolute snore. The innovation curve for Firefox is akin to an avalanche where 1 was the pinnacle and everything is crashing downwards ever since.
Grant
I can just imagine the conversation ie7 has parental controls.. yes but firefox can save a webpage as a pdf?? Why the heck do people want to save a webpage which is easily accessible, can be got to via just a url, in an uneditable format, which they can do today anyway if they install pdfcreator (free and open source).
You guys seem to be dropping the ball.. I hope somneone really picks up and focus’s on the real priorities… From the poll, it looks like most of the people agree with me.
Why don’t you make an msi and focus on allowing corporate users and errr parents with kids to properly use firefox. Implement official group policy add ins, msi files and parental controls.. Wake up guys, focus on the larger markets.
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Percy Cabello
Grant, I agree that parental controls is critical. How good it is depends of course on how it is implemented. Whitelisting could be a good option for some parents.
PDF printing is also critical but for other reasons. There are many cases when I have needed to share for example a computer configuration at some vendor, or a certain report or data view in a reporting application, and sending a link just doesn’t work because it won’t replciate what I am seeing and want the other people to see. It is great as well for archiving. Say, your current bank account statement, for an incorrect charge, or a payment, etc.
MSI is already a must have and group policy a good to have.
E
I miss any Mac specific improvements like a separate Intel and PPC version, implementation of keychain, faster rendering engine and improved graphics and font rendering.
jrest
developers released a preliminary list of requirements
That should be the job of users, not developers.
Heliologue
pd, those aren’t the only improvements–merely the userspace features. Remember that Firefox 3.0 will be based on Gecko 1.9, which means that, among other things, it will finally pass the Acid2 test (also will have more complete CSS2.1 and some more CSS3 support, like border-radius. It will also use Cairo for graphics, meaning faster and high-quality rendering.
Richard Lee
While there are some good features on there the one big feature thats missing is an improved zoom facility, firefox is limited in that its not so much a zoom as a text enlarging feature. you can’t focus on images. When you do zoom your likly to break the look and feel of the site. I’m surprised this isn’t higher on the list of things todo.
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Percy Cabello
Heliologue, you are right. Many other improvements are happening backstage. Firefox 3 Alpha 1 already has some of these in place.
Ernie Oporto
Would like to see certain tabs markable as “private” to prevent cookies and/or javascript from working in the tab.
Re: Parental Controls… that should be an extension.
Grant
Percy, if you are still reading this.. go here:http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Pdfcreator, is free, open source and will work with all your applications….! Pdfs is imho unneccessary bloat… when there are enough dedicated apps to do it and can do it much better. No point reinventing the wheel.
trevor
“I can just imagine the conversation ie7 has parental controls.. yes but firefox can save a webpage as a pdf?? Why the heck do people want to save a webpage which is easily accessible, can be got to via just a url, in an uneditable format, which they can do today anyway if they install pdfcreator (free and open source). ”
Mac OS X can do this from any program anyway without stupid addons
Neal
I think it would be great to have an upload progress meter built into the browser. With increase in rich, user-submitted content, there is a need for feedback on the progress of a POST action.
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Keith
Am I the only one who thinks that, other than “A much needed print support to prevent cut paragraphs and true WYSIWYG.”, the list of main priorities includes nothing that should be a priority? Seems like there are alot of things Firefox needs more than those, like the ability to have a bookmarks toolbar more than one line. And they really should take the ideas behind the Copy Plain Text extension and make it a part of the core functionality, as well as the PDF Download extension and add the ability to control ALL document types with the option of opening in the browser, saving to disk, etc.
George Santos
It would be nice if they just worked on keeping it from regularly using 80% of my 3.2 ghz processor.
Fresqui.com
(posibles) CaracterÃsticas de Firefox 3
(ArtÃculo en Inglés)
Dividido en: interesantes, muy deseables y obligatorias (a continuación):
-Mejor integración con los Add-ons.
-Soporte para bookmarks e historial remoto.
-Los archivos se podrán manejar por servicios webs tipo: Writely o Google
Dan
“And perhaps, as I asked Santa, the ability to redirect mailto: links to web email services.”
WebmailCompose extension – http://jedbrown.net/1.0/mozilla/extensions/
It even auto-detected that I use Gmail!
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converter
@pd:
Most large Microsoftized sites won’t even consider the use of a browser that can’t be managed by Group Policy. The ability to force the browser to use a proxy, for example, is an absolute requirement. The MSI install and GP support will get Firefox into a lot of large sites and probably lead to a significant increase in the rate of adoption within a year or two.
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Chris Mullendore
Download queueing would be nice… ex., max simultaneous downloads w/ automatic FIFO. It would be nice if the queue cached/managed session and/or cookies so that downloads from authenticated sites may correctly resume, ala poor man’s getright.
raptorGT
What I would love to see in the new Firefox is the ability to send a tab to another window! For example, one Firefox WINDOW is all weather reports, the other is cars, but if I accidentally open a car-related topic in the weather WINDOW, I should be able to right click on the TAB and choose ’send to Firefox [2]‘ or ‘[3]‘ depending on the WINDOW ID. The WINDOW ID should be customizable so I can label it ‘Weather’ or ‘Cars’ while I’m working. It just makes organization a lot better and have found many other users are wishing for the same. So whaddya say guys? C’mon… give us a little love.
JWFokker
So I see the infamous memory leak isn’t a top priority still. Maybe we’ll see that fixed in 4.0. Though I’m not holding my breath.
Also, the Download manager needs a performance boost. When you get too many downlaods in there it slows to a crawl to browse through them.
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David A. Mellis
That list seems slanted towards the early adopter/power user (e.g. remote bookmarks and handling links with web services). It would be nice to see more attention paid to polishing the UI. For example, you could fix some of the small broken bits of the UI in Firefox 2, for example:
- history search doesn’t work on the Mac (bug #338833)
- a tooltip blocking the bookmarks bar when dragging a proxy icon (bug #312852)
- menus should auto-scroll if you hover above/below them (bug #63295)
- there’s no way to specify an arbitrary application to handle unknown file types on the Mac (bug #352142)
- standard Mac keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Command-Option-F to select the web search box) aren’t supported (bug #348472)
These quirks are disappointing to those used to the relative refinement of the interfaces of most Mac programs, and I imagine they limit your competitiveness versus Safari.
geekwithsoul
Hmm … how about complete CSS 2.1 support, some CSS 3 features, and complete SVG support? Now that would be worth incrementing a full version number!
syncr
Along with remote bookmarks, it would be really useful if FF included a feature to synchronize extensions across multiple computers. AFAIK, there is no way to do this with any extension currently in production. FEBE 4.0 comes close, but this is only a backup solution and only works on Windows.
Thanks to all developers for all the hard work with FF3.0!
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me
JWFokker in post 38 nailed the.. the…the most important fixes.
Which are also the most annoying things about FF.
1. MEMORY CONSUMPTION
2. DOWNLOAD MANAGER performance boost when there is many downloads
and lets not forget fix this dammed MEMORY consumption and then add new features.
Cloud
Wow guys… WOW. There’s a difference between planned features and fixes. For example, fixing a memory leak isn’t a damn FEATURE! I’m sure they have a dedicated team of people for fixing stuff, but that’s not what this news post is about, it’s about PLANNED FEATURES!
Corey
This constitutes a major release? You climb your way to the top, then sit and catch your breath? Not cool.
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Cloud
Another key word there is “some”, which in no way means “all”. If they meant the same thing, they wouldn’t have made 2 words for it. Who knows, they could have some secret features planned that they don’t want MS to copy before it’s release (which we all know MS does habitually, in fact most of their stuff is 1. not their idea, and 2. done a whole lot crappier than the original idea).
My point is, stop complaining and wait for officially announced features.
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John
Mouse gestures for tabs like Maxthon. And just better improvments on the rendering engine itself.
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moe
that is crap. not a single new feature. cant they think of anything. i can think of a million. and i mean proppa feature not some improvement or some lil code change
Percy Cabello
Grant, I use PDFCreator since about 3 years and love it. And still believe it must be provided by Firefox by default. Users need a solid way to share and archive documents. PDFs provide this. Lazy or unknowingly system admin are not deploying PDF capabilities to these users. I also believe Firefox PDF’s could more likely include links that currently PDF creator can’t, as far as I know.
Saving as PDF would be a killing feature, specially becuase Microsoft has already demonstrated it can’t achieve this (for licensing/marketing/strategy reasons) when it withdraw PDF printing from Office 2007.
Since Firefox is moving to the Cairo graphics rendering engine it should cost less to achieve this in terms of additional download/memory footprint. I would like to know the exact cost though, but I guess it’s not possible right now.
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[...] There’s plenty more coming listed at the article source, and I’m sure there will be many changes before even an alpha materializes, but it’s interesting to see what the general direction is. clipped from mozillalinks.org In today’s Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) meeting, developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year. Among the list of mandatory requirements, read, what is the most likely to be included in Firefox 3 we have: A much needed print support to prevent cut paragraphs and true WYSIWYG. The much requested MSI installer which will be a much welcomed improvement for IT administrators as it will ease deployment and updating of Firefox across a company. A private web browsing mode. I guess this would mean no cache, history, password or entered form information storage. Microformats support. Files could be handled by web services. If I am reading this correctly, this could mean you would be able to click on an attached document and open it with something like Writely or Google Documents. And perhaps, as I asked Santa, the ability to redirect mailto: links to web email services. [...]
Alejandro Lapeyre
Real Zoom is (for me) the #1 item to implement. That could mean a lot less of work to design web sites.
By the way, isn’t there a place where, we, users, can make suggestions for Firefox 4.0?
Chris
I’ve been wishing for years that Firefox would grow to implement something similar to http://www.avantbrowser.com/
The ability to browse with multiple screens is a priceless feature. Copying and pasting from one screen to another, or comparing prices/features of a product for example is a lot simpler with Avant. However Firefox rules and there’s just nothing Avant will ever be able to do about it. ;)
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And perhaps, as I asked Santa, the ability to redirect mailto: links to web email services.A much needed print support to prevent cut paragraphs and true WYSIWYG.The much requested MSI installer which will be a much welcomed improvement for IT administrators as it will ease deployment and updating of Firefox across a company.In the security front: support for Microsoft CardSpace and OpenID (check tomorrow’s article for more coverage on this). Smarter credentials handling.Airbag, the Google backed open source crash reporting tool will replace currently licensed TalkBack.Among the highly desirable requirements:A private web browsing mode …Save web pages as PDF files, integrated with history …Support pause/resume downloads across sessions.Make Firefox help accessible only while online …Microformats support.Richard MacManus read that, and wrote this:While Firefox is still aiming for a broad mainstream audience, Mozilla recognizes that its strengths for normal users are its extensions and customization. It notes on the wiki that "Microsoft will continue to establish deeper ties from IE7/Vista to live.com & MSN" and even that other "web service providers" may introduce their own browsers (Yahoo? Amazon?). So Firefox is aiming to be the best general Web browser. … The mandatory requirements listed … show that Firefox wants to be an independent information broker rather than a simple HTML renderer in its next version. Microformats will be a key part of this too – and this is currently listed as a "highly desirable" feature … good to see extensible identity management listed there. All of this encourages best-of-breed apps to flourish, which is an excellent direction for Mozilla to take with Firefox. It probably also plays into Google’s hands, as they have a number of best of breed web apps. … Also in the works is Microsoft’s IE8. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and it may be released as a final product "within 18-24 months" … if anything, I’d hazard a guess and say that IE8 will head back into ProprietaryLand – leaving Firefox to become more of a vehicle for independent web services, particularly those from Google. Brady Forrest runs with it: [geddit?]This is a great list of features (congrats to the team!). I’m glad to see more support for identity systems. If OpenID gets in, it will definitely aid in its adoption by both users and sites. The increased interactions with webservices would be great. I want to be able to open Word Docs into Writely or Zimbra in any browser from any site and enabling remote synchronization of bookmarks would be very handy. I really like the idea of not having to reboot FireFox when I want to try out an add-on. Ryan Wagner digs deeper:While Internet Explorer 7 might be a good browser, I think that one also has to look into the future before making a switch. Mozilla should have another milestone release of Firefox by the middle of 2007, but Internet Explorer 8 isn’t expected for 18 to 24 months. The slow development cycle of Internet Explorer is something that has always turned me away from the browser, and one of the big reasons I have always looked at alternatives like Opera and Firefox. I do believe that Internet Explorer 7 does some things better than Firefox, like handle feeds, but there are also things that Firefox does better like support a large range of user-created extensions.Mary Jo stares:Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation are pushing ahead … many of their priorities are — at least in theory — quite similar. … Supposedly, there’s already an alpha build of IE 8 circulating inside Redmond’s hallowed halls, as well. Anyone out there seen it? … The Mozilla folks are planning to release a new version of Firefox on a yearly basis, according to information shared on the wiki, "since it helps drive upgrades and adoption." That means Firefox 4 in 2008 … Bill Gates said last year that he hoped the team would be able to release a browser on an annual basis, [but] the IE developers have been reluctant to commit to that timetable. The IE team has said it will up IE’s compliance with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standards with future releases [and]:"Locking" a page to prevent users from accidentally navigating away from itAdding a "Find on Page" capabilityImproving username/password managementRestoring the "Image Toolbar" provided in earlier IE 7 test buildsChanging the download mechanism, perhaps eliminating the initial download to the "temporary Internet files" folderAdding easily editable config files (similar to Firefox’s userChrome.css and UserContent.css)Enabling draggable tabs from one IE window to anotherConfiguring tabs so that each has its own private cookie cacheIntroducing new status bar info, possibly with fields such as "last accessed by user" and "window last updated"Enabling add-ons, such as stocks, movies, etc., a la Firefox Also, don’t think that IE sucks, because it doesn’t. Firefox wins in over all browser-using, since it’s full of add ons, but that doesn’t mean IE 7 is lame. It is a big big step from IE 6, and I’m going to bet IE 8 will be much better. Quote: [...]
Graham
How about more control over the toolbars. I’d like to be able to group toolbars on the same level so that I can reduce the overhead and increase the browser window size.
JeffApril 29th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I agree that the ability to group toolbars together on a single line would be very useful. This is a feature that has long existed in IE…you don’t realize how some of those little things really matter until you move from IE to something else!
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belg4mit
PDF is no solution. I don’t need YA PDF creation implementation on my drive (I have OpenOffice, and three different print to PDF drivers, which also addresses your “PDF should use print style sheet” wish). What’s really required is a proper page web page archive format (WAR file, or the MARs some older hacked together beta plugin for win32 could make) that can be viewed natively, and extracted with common tools (tar+gz, zip) for use by other browsers or indexing.
I hope the “remote bookmarks” ends up being a proper reimplementation of the baby-thrown-out-with-the-bathwater known as roaming, and not some clone of the google bookmarks add-on.
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Blisset
Firefox is the only browser that lacks a real ZOOM (not simple text enlargement) feature.
Real Zoom is more important than all these other features.
Can we have it for Firefox 4.0??
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mayfire
We have seen download managers such as DownThemAll that accelerate downloads. Can’t we use a similar kind of logic to accelerate uploading of web pages. Imagine opening urls 400% faster !?
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Martin Lawrence
Thanks for the news. Is there any chance to discuss the Mailto-Redirect-to-Webmail function? Would be extremenly interested in this, possibly contribute.
Regards, Martin
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Joules Ampere
Please fix the forms appearance on Linux,It is a shame to have to put up with such ugly form elements when using Firefox on Linux, this is not the case using Opera.
JD
Sounds like a good idea. Lets just hope they stick with the roots of Firefox when they first released it. Oh, and they find a way to stop making firefox suck up 99.999% of system resources for no apparent reason. Other than that, I love firefox and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Dave Simonton
How about the ability to resize the address and search boxes and use the space for add-ons? They take up more room that is needed or desired and is a waste of precious space.
Steve
I would like the Opera feature “Fit to Width” to be included with Firefox 3.
C Regan
I hope they fix the forms of FireFox for mac, some elements of webpages, like radio buttons, dropdown menus, forms, are horrible, and even hard to use. With safari, none of these problems arise.
Brian A
One enhancement that is overdue – in the “organize bookmarks” window, when I do a search for a link – how do I determine what folder that link is in? I’d like to tab (move focus) to the left panel and have it highlight the appropriate folder.
Firefox 3 to remember text zoom for specific web sites : Mozilla Links
[...] previously announced, Firefox 3 will be able to remember selected preferences for specific web sites. Right now, the [...]
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John
I would like to recommend adding the ability to password protect firefox profiles. Reason being, many family members might use the same computer and have bookmarks not intended for the other users to be able to use/view or to have the freedom of changing configurations or other users profiles. It gives a whole other meaning of personalizing your firefox profile and keeping if personalized. I hope this helps for firefox 3.
Christoph Voigt
>The much requested MSI installer which will be a much welcomed improvement for IT administrators as it will ease deployment and updating of Firefox across a company.
Oooooh, give me the sweet MSI!
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[...] Planned features for Firefox 3 Improved password security; private browsing mode; Web-page archiving; blacklisting of malicious Web sites; microformat detection framework and handling capabilities; moving help content from the client PC to the Web. OpenID support! [...]
pete
improved font rendering like ie7 ( subpixel ) anti-aliasing , ClearType , etc
would be cool
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[...] (yet), but as long as I’m going to update, I might as well be ready for the next big thing. Firefox will be incorporating it into their next browser (3.0), so people will start expecting this functionality before too [...]
bbbobbbo
yeap, a “fit-to-width” opera-like feature would simply be awsome.
Anon
“Much requested” MSI installer? Was it really?
I don’t know about anybody else but I absolutely DESPISE the MSI installer/framework! So slow, sluggish and buggy!
Nullsoft’s NSIS is many multiple times superior.
TBH, I wouldn’t be worried about “sysadmins”. These are the types that do IT admin for large corporate or Government offices – they will be leaving IE as the desktop as they are too dumb to try anything different.
Any admin worth his salt will steer as far away as possible from MSI and use the most stable installer available, if indeed, any installer at all. This software can easily be slip-streamed into the XP installation. They will be able to make do, or even prefer to do without, an installer.
Craig
Native Tag “bookmarks” support would be nice. Bookmark folders are so dead and restrictive. Many websites fit into more than one category
dfnsjk
The download manager in Firefox 2 is quite poor, I’d love to see the interface revised as Download Statusbar:
Jim Higgins
Add a “send page” feature along with the current “send link”.
Npt being able to “send page” is quite annoying. The add-on for sending a page is a poor imitation of the real thing.
Joan Young
is mozilla firefox compatible with windows vista. I just bought this new computer that came with internet explora but I want Mozilla but some people have said it is not compatible yet. please let me know so I can download it.
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[...] and ActionScript to build a seamless application that coordinates between the web and the desktop. FireFox 3 is building in the ability to have a local database in the browser and to enable your pages to work [...]
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Keith Ealanta
Two things (please? pretty please?)
1. Tab window : The ability to split a tab out to an independent window (without reloading the page) and to tell a window to become a tab on another window.
2. Multi-proxy : The ability to have different proxies for each window, or even each tab. As a developer I switch proxy 100+ times a day. In practice it is switching between the same pages as viewed via 3 different proxies.
And for bonus points (or if #2 cannot be done)
3. Independent-start option : The ability to start a new firefox process that will _not_ share cookies etc with the one already running. It should run as independantly as it can, so two firefoxes can be used in parallel, with different setups.
Edna Smith
Why does firefox not incorporate ‘word wrap’ into their browser?
The bottom scroll bar is a real pain!!!
Ryan Price
this may have been covered before, but I would really like to see vista’s aero-glass integrated into the client-areas of Firefox 3.
Ramudu Kondapalli
Mozilla Firefox 3 ability to start a new firefox window that will not share cookies etc with the one already opened window.
Nikos Karakalos
Could that be accomplished to use Firefox instead of IE to view-download-update_Windows-etc???
I’m not a developer but why not be able to use “my choice browser”
jason druet
Firefox needs to be multi-session like IE7…for example me and my girlfriend can both be logged into our face book accounts on same comp at same time using IE7 but not with Firefox…i don’t know if you can build an add on for this or just simply update the existing platform, but whatever the case this would help you corner the market as besides these points Firefox is a far superior browser and being able to multi session would be better not only for your home users but also for businesses…people dont want 2 browsers loaded on there desktop IE7 is a virus/spyware magnet and i would personally like to get rid of it but cannot due to that 1 drawback of firefox.
please consider this firefox rocks and there is no need for them microsoft boneheads to have a step up on you in any aspect of the browser market,
Thank You
Jason Druet
Adam Rochford
Will it have more css3 compatibility? Are we finally going to be able to use word-wrap property? Help I need compatibility!!!!!
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[...] really hope with the upcoming release of Firefox 3, that the Fox gets its act together. I like it for its extensions but extensions are not the be-all [...]
marinus
Features are fine but not without basic usability. That [plus speed] is why i’ve stayed with Opera and will continue to do so [instantly zoom and fit-to-width] your web pages!] until it’s built in [and not a klunky inferior extension].
Firefox 3 Beta First Impressions — Connor Wilson
[...] of the features that were promised in the new release can be found here, but here’s the [...]
alex
More safari and mac os x support and integration.
Please please please
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[...] – Save halaman web ke PDF – Memasang Add ons tanpa harus me-restart Firefox. – Support remote bookmarks – Private web browsing mode (ini seperti yang ada di Safari) – Microformats support Info lengkap feature baru yang akan hadir di Firefox 3 liat disini. [...]
Review: Firefox 3 beta 1 | Tuker Otak
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HayMoose
Okay so this might be a stretch for any web browser but it would give a search engine junkie like me a great tool.
Here’s the scenarion;
I open a browser window
enter search keyword into the search bar
hold the ctrl key down and open the six to 8 most interesting links related to my keyword in separate tabs
I find the page I wish to view and grab the tab by its title and drag it to the desktop which in turn opens a new single browser of only THAT page
Then I conveniently close the browser with the unwanted keyword tabs.
Is this a dumb idea or what?
Henoch C
About the Download management:
It would be very nice to be able to pause a current download at any time and resume it days later.
Because once close (Firefox) all current downloads are lost.
Steve
Really want to download v3, but I use yahoo mail. Has the bug been fixed yet?
John
Also I hope they can fix the bloat that’s in mozilla firefox 2, and hopefully that’s furfilled in firefox 3
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[...] Zo gaan yahoo (o.a. Flickr), google, IBM en Verisign OpenID ondersteunen. Daarnaast zal Firefox 3 native ondersteuning bieden aan [...]
azthth
wow. i wish “show all bookmarks” manager thingy still had drag and drop. Also, any idea about getting an enter( or go ) button next to the address bar?
ali imran khan
will it also support css3 and previous standards of html and css . what new supports it is bringing for javascript and xml.
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[...] and at least give this new version a chance. To be honest though I’m far more interested in Firefox 3 looming on the horizon which is already in its 3rd [...]
Avinash Gupta
Dear sir,
I would like to know if it is safe to use beta version as i newly shift from IE7 to firefox 2
thanks
Avinash
Russ Ross
I had to use Firefox to to read a web document that IE7 couldn’t. I decided to make Firefox my default browser and try it out. I really like the CTL+ for zooming but have to go back to using IE7 as my default browser because Firefox doesn’t wrap long lines which is a deal breaker. The whole ideal of a web browser is to help you read the web page so zooming and word wrapping are mandatory basic functionality above all else.
Mathew Hartnell
IS it safe to use beta version as i newly shift from IE7 to firefox 2
Jon
From a regular user standpoint, not a serious IT guy.
1) I like the speed of firefox, loads a hell of a lot faster then IE7
2) The Bookmarks Toolbar is excellent, one reason I stuck with Firefox
3) The download window is a major pain in my backside, its one more thing I have to click to get out of my view.
Integrate it into the existing look of Firefox like up top to the right of the Help menu. Plenty of room there.
4) Addons are so much easier in firefox, I agree with someone way up the list, dont make a permenant restart button, just make the addon install itself and restart itself back to the same page the user was browsing. Why ask just do it.
5) A permenant button for fast browsing (No history/passwords) is a great idea, one touch on/off is all we need. Nothing complicated please!
6) The FireFTP addon is one of the greatest addons in Firefox, a WYSIWYG with the majority of functions html coders need is defininetly lacking.
7) For the love of God, please stay away from becoming “VISTA RETARDED”. Dont go security crazy, we just want to surf.
8) The Mailto function working with web based email services would be excellent, I would give my l/r nut for that. Im sick of copy/pasteing it.
Thanks thats all I have.
Manu
What I really like in the FF2 is the ability create a shortcut of the current web page I’m viewing. I just need to drag and drop the address from the address bar to a folder or to the desktop (to create a shortcut).
But what if I have for example 20 tabs open and I’d like to create shortcuts for everyone of them? Then I’ll have to do the same thing in each tab and that takes time!
But wouldn’t it be great if it would be possible to create shortcuts for every tab in that current browser window a lot easier and at the same time for each.
That’s why a feature should be added in the menu called for example “Send all the tabs/web pages in this current window…(create a shortcut)”. And then a option box would come and the user could choose to send them all to either to the desktop or to a folder he/she chooses.
With a feature like that making shortcuts to web pages would become very easy and fast!
Jim Bruce
I am something of a civil libertarian. In the days of the US Patriot act we all should be cognizant of the need to protect our rights for privacy from those who feel they have a right to investigate it for their own reasons, however noble or patriotic they seem. I am a user through Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5. I am disturbed that address bar history is kept even when other histories can be purged easily. This means that somewhere unavailable to the user is a file that persists in retaining personal information.
Personal information should be kept by information privacy only when permission is given in advance. The default setting should be “keep no tracks” and the user should be called upon to choose what amounts of information is retained.
Jim Bruce
Halil Özgür
CleartType, ClearType, ClearType, Please ! (But not through windows appearance settings.)
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Catherine Esquivel
To whom this may concern,
I have Firefox 3.0.5 and it’s running great on my ‘leopard’ mac. (MacPro). But, on my older version Power Mac G-5, it suddenly refused to open and now I have to be opening up the internet browser with ‘Safari’…which I DO NOT particularly like. I loose alot of extra options and convieniences which Firefox provides for me, and I can’t afford to have Firefox working on just ONE COMPUTER. The older mac (which Firefox is NOT responding to), has my printer and scanner connected. Please email me back and tell me what’s going on. It’s really strange that Firefox doesn’t want to open with my
Power mac G-5 anymore. I’ll be waiting for a response! THANK YOU!
-Catherine Esquivel
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Firefox 3 new features announced
Percy Cabello on Mozilla Links has posted about the recent Gran Paradiso developers meeting where they discussed the new features in Firefox 3. They came up with a list of features, separated into mandatory, highly desirable & ̵…