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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."
I've got like 4,200 bookmarks...I tried organizing them a few times...that was a lesson in futility.
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat
Ctrl+H is shorter than Ctrl+Shift+H, and it opens the history in the sidebar on FF3 here. Of course, I don't remember what FF2 did.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
This sneak peak at Firefox wasted an hour of my life, watching treadmill kittens on You Tube!
The awesome bar is pretty fucking annoying to say the least. In the last 8-10 years when I've been surfing I've been typing the first part of the domain I wanted to visit and the auto complete would show it. So if I wanted to go to slashdot I just type s and arrow down and slashdot would be the first link since its my most visited site with S in the beginning. If I wanted to go to sinfest I'd go si and arrow down - this behavior has to change with FF3, now the browser will popup the most visited site with S in it - and that isn't necessarily slashdot.
Yes this might be a nifty feature for some, but seriously, please stop changing interface behavior! Windows does it all the time and it is driving hordes of supporters nuts. Keep it consistent and let people with special needs enable it - or at least do it the WinZip way; ask the user what he or she wants! (FF3 is default browser with hardy heiron - thats why I'm actually using it, downgrading a package usually leads to nightmares and I just want an OS that isn't in the way of my work - All other OS I got is running FF 2 and is staying that way till I figure out how to make FF3 behave like FF2)
For me, it's a lot about the little things. When he showed the thing about right-clicking on a downloaded file and being able to go back to the actual download page, that's when I thought "why haven't other browser devs thought of that before".
IMHO, Firefox 3 isn't a huge advance among web browsers, and actually catches up in some areas with some of the competition -- thinking of the site identification support. And it isn't the dominating browser in the Acid3 test either. But it does a lot of things right, and that with the extensive plugin support not found on any other browser (besides Firefox compatible derivatives). With the resource consumptions fixes (that Safari is in dire need of on Windows, and IE 7 too somewhat), it's really becoming a quite pleasant browser to use.
I'm a former Opera user, but the thing is that I feel Firefox 3's new Javascript speed enhancements and memory fixes making it so fast (and with the scrolling plugin YASS giving it the final touch of smooth "speed scrolling"), that I can't really switch back at this point. I did with Firefox 2 due to the memory issues, but I doubt I will again until perhaps Opera 10 or something is released.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Now, I admit I am more open minded about the Bar (except the name, that remains stupid). I'm open to seeing how it behaves in practice. If the searchable aspects of it are returning good results then maybe it's useful. If, however, it's like the built-in dictionary in Fx 2 that seems only to recognize words in Webster's 1893 edition, then it may be beyond irritating.
But, the Site Identity thing -- and it recognizing how may times you've visited a site, looks like a whole bundle of trouble waiting to happen. At best a divorce, and at worst a 1st class ticket to Gitmo when they impound your laptop at an airport check-in and you forgot to clear it.
I'm also thinking the fact that this changes color might be potentially distracting and irritating. Almost all of the extensions I add to Firefox are about stopping things distracting me on a webpage or browser. I'm not MTV generation, I need to focus when I read, and I only use a browser to read (and for pr0n too obviously, but I don't want distracted then either).
in that case you typing "sla" should be good for most of your needs. If you need more reliable method then I suggest you use "keywords." open bookmark manager, right-click on the bookmark and set its keyword. next time you type the keyword and hit enter it will take you to the bookmarked site.
I have set "/." as the keyword for slashdot. it is a quick one-hand operation. takes a fraction of a second.
I found the awesome bar annoying for about a week but now I can't live without it. The best part is that you don't have to remember the domain name. You can match by any part of URL or by page title. To me that is awesome.
After reading your comment, I came to the conclusion that "lubetube" would be the greatest name for a porn version of youtube ever.
Turns out, I wasn't the only person that thought so...
I believe it's a well-known fact that the current mod system allows users to only have mod points or a clue.
You obviously don't surf porn. If you surf porn for half an hour you'll visit dozens and dozens of sites. Unless you visit a HUGE number of non-porn sites, then many of the two-letter sequence you type in the "awesome bar" (groan) will display large, colorful evidence, clearly legible from across the room, of the fact that you have surfed porn sometime in the last month.
Sticking to the theme (established above) of what happens when you type "sl" to get to Slashdot, the first suggestion for me is actually Slashdot, but the second suggestion is a porn page. This has been bothering me for weeks. I know you'll wonder if I've hit that page a bunch of times, so I just checked: the chick doesn't look familiar or even remotely hot, so I'm sure I didn't visit it more than once.
For some reason (probably legibility and/or predictability) I didn't worry nearly as much about the history drop-down.
Fortunately, although my friends notice my reluctance to look things up on the internet when they're around, they think I'm just a Luddite, or I'm showing off my ostentatiously non-geeky preference for IRL stuff. When I'm forced to use the web in front of somebody else, I use Google for EVERYTHING because Google search results do not, thank God, advertise what I do when I'm alone. Yet.
(The third suggestion from the "awesome bar" is developers.slashdot.org. C'mon. I view that page almost every day. It would be so awesome if it was listed higher than the porn page I visited a month ago.)