For fans of Firefox, Mozilla’s increasingly popular multi-platform Web browser, today is a big day indeed: It’s the official launch of Firefox 3 (Windows only — Mac and Linux releases are imminent). So, what’s new? What’s exciting? What’s the big deal?
For starters, the developers claim Firefox 3 is significantly faster than both 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7. That’s always good. The new Places Organizer lets you tag, manage, and search bookmarks — a big improvement over the old bookmark manager. Firefox 3 also delivers improved security features, better password management, resumable downloads, and an auto-completing location bar:
Type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you’re looking for.
You can see the full list of Firefox 3’s new goodies on Mozilla’s site. You might also want to check out Lifehacker’s Top 10 Firefox 3 Features. As of 10:09 a.m. ET, Mozilla hasn’t posted the Firefox 3 download link on its main page. It’ll be there soon, but if you can’t wait, you can download Firefox 3 right now. Firefox 3 will be available for download starting at 4 p.m. ET.
