Firefox 3 rocks the web

Upgrading your web browser should be a cause for celebration, this time around.

Firefox 3 comes with around 14,000 fixes, adjustments and upgrades but if you’re moving up from Firefox 2, you’ll enjoy a very smooth transition and here’s a quick overview of what’s in store for you with this amazing new upgrade.

• Password Manager - Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
• One-Click Bookmarking - Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
• Improved Performance - View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
• Smart Location Bar - Find the sites you love in seconds — enter a term for instant matches that make sense.
• Instant Web Site ID - Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
• Full Zoom - See any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.
• Platform-Native Look & Feel - Browse with a Firefox that’s integrated into your computer’s operating system.

Even if that’s already worthy of a primary digit upgrade, 3, in this case, there’s more.

Consider the very web 2.0-like ability to add tags to bookmarks, just like in blogs and wikis. This means that above and beyond the usual bookmark categories you create and manage, the tags can add a significant level of precision regarding the content available in your bookmarked pages.

Oh! And you can bookmark links with one click by clicking on the little blue star nested in the smart location bar that’ll make you navigation easier than ever by suggesting web sites you may want to visit, as you type the name in the location field, live.

Furthermore, Firefox 3 protects you from viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware. Not bad for a browser — Microsoft should take notes! Attack sites will have a much harder time defrauding ususpecting web users now that Firefox 3 integrates these anti-malware features. In other words, in your clueless aunt Mimi still finds herself being the victim of fraudsters, go to her place and install Firefox 3 on her machine so her misery will stop, once and for all.

There would be many more features to review and talk about but the real story with Firefox 3 is how much more advanced it is, compared to the current market leader, Internet Explorer 6. Even if Microsoft acts tough and maintain that their browser is still number one, the online crowd can move quickly and the place they would like go is deep into Mozilla territory, thanks to Firefox 3.

To this day, 19,882,507 web users have downloaded Firefox 3 and that number is going up, all the time.

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