Originally posted on November 21, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
If you are a web developer or just one of those geeks that want to tinker with beta releases, then you will be happy to know that Mozilla has released Beta 1 of Firefox 3. The new browser will purportedly have 30 new features, most of them answering users’ request for more security, easier usage and better performance.
One of the new features is a location bar that will allow users to know who owns a particular website. This has become an important feature because of the rise of bogus sites that trick users into giving personal information or phish for other important data. Aside from this feature, Firefox 3 will also have additional malware protection against sites that install potentially dangerous (or at least irritating) trojans, spyware or even viruses.
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 platform and has been under development for almost three years. Mozilla hopes that the new iteration of Firefox will address the increased demand of users for an additional layer of security. From a technical perspective it looks like this version is going to be very robust and secure, but the proof is in the testing, so to speak. We’ll see how it performs in real world situations.