Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Firefox 3 has arrived!!

As of noon yesterday, Firefox 3 was released for the general public (download it here - www.mozilla.com/en-US/).

Mozilla, the corporation that develops Firefox, has taken a huge leap in improving the memory usage by the browser, improving security issues including identifying phishing sites and malware sites. They also improved the address bar, making it easier to retrieve pages from history by just typing part of the url name or keywords from the pages.

Firefox 3 is a must have for browsing the Internet. Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 8 but it's not due to be out until sometime next year. Speaking of Microsoft, if you are running XP and have been thinking about installing service pack 3, be sure to do your research as there have been some issues with AMD processors and a security issue with Flash. If your computer has an Intel processor there aren't any problems but in my opinion, I haven't seen any improvement since installing SP3 on my computer at the office.

Hope everyone is having a good summer and I'll be posting more info soon. Thanks for dropping by.

Charles Keaton @ 08:43 AM Add Comment

JC: I'm thrilled with FF3. It zips through gmail and LHS mail faster than enything else I've used, including Safari. Same goes with speed on our gradebook, but it skews the cells a little weird. Until (unless?) the gradebook team comes up with an update that fixes this, I'll probably stick with FF2 on my machine at school. (06/18/08)