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Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast
An anonymous reader points to a mention at MozillaZine of "a screencast by Mozilla developer Mike Beltzner, demonstrating some of the new features in Mozilla Firefox 3, which is due out very soon. Weighing in at under four minutes, the screencast gives a concise overview of why you should be excited about Firefox 3. Due to its visual nature, the screencast shows Firefox's features far more clearly than the many written previews that have been published. A picture really is worth a thousand words."
New features like extra-fast form submission?
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You could just download it.
is that Gmail will no longer load for me. I have to use the basic html version. So guess what? I'm using IE.
I don't get excited about browsers...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
flash has a 98% installation rate, higher than any other plugin out there. but since /. users are by reputation mostly paranoid linux nerds, i'm guessing it is less than 98% among THEM, but i doubt it's 2%.
What were they thinking there?
Honestly I don't like all the new terms and "presentational" stuff. I feel in their attempt to make the browser more accessible they're doing the exact opposite.
Why do we need a little officer named Larry to identify the websites? Why does he have to turn different colors? Is the presence of absence of information in the site-lookup not enough?
Favicons? Why not just give the site identifier a "?" icon so its function is more readily understandable? Have we forgotten how important universal symbolism is to the user experience?
The method all these new features take to presenting themselves seem to bog the experience down more than make it valuable and usable. My mother, whose PC I've recently transitioned to Firefox, is not going to remember "favicons" and what it means when Larry the site-identifying-police-officer-icon turns different colors.
Why on earth should I have to learn all this bull just to get a sort-of approximation of the old behaviour?
And yeah, there's probably a way of disabling this new great feature, that probably involves invocations of about:config or finding an obscure extension that works half of the time and will never quite work with the latest version because a fucking checkbox in the options dialog is just too much to ask for.