Top 10 Firefox 3 Features

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla's finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so it's time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make "Gran Paradiso" the browser to beat. Nearly everything in the open-source app has gotten a second look from the minds at Mozilla, from back buttons to bookmarks, address bars to add-ons, passwords to performance, and the changes will make Firefox 3 worth the upgrade come its official release date, slated for sometime next month. Let's take a look at the 10 best upgrades in Firefox 3, and how they'll bolster your browsing, after the jump.
Note: Firefox 3 hasn't been officially released yet—a public preview release is available and intended for testers only. While it's a very stable preview, only use it if you're willing to deal with bugs and instability as the Mozilla teams ready the official release.
That said, our favorite Firefox 3 features include


10. Souped-up Add-ons manager..

A big part of what makes Firefox so special to power users is its extensibility with extensions, add-ons, plug-ins and themes, and Firefox 3's Add-ons dialog got the attention it deserved. The Fox's Add-Ons menu is more robust and intuitive on at least two fronts. You can search and install extensions and themes right from the pop-up box, no browsing required. Also, a new plug-in manager lets you enable and disable third-party helpers like Flash, QuickTime, and anything else that makes content work (and causes you grief)


09. More intuitive interface overall

 Mozilla tweaked and updated a whole lot of little things here and there throughout Firefox 3, which amounts to a big overall boost in usability. Most noticeably when you first switch, the Back button only appears on the address bar if there is a page to go back to, and when it does, it's bigger and easier to click. Users who want to make sites with small text more readable permanently are in luck; Firefox 3 can increase the size of images and text, or just the text, on hard-to-read sites. In addition, Firefox 3 applies favicons more consistently to bookmarks, you can click a site's favicon to get extended site identification information, you can resize the search box to hold more than two words, and the find-on-page search box automatically grabs the currently selected word, just to name a few new UI improvements.

In the long term, once webapps catch up, Firefox 3 will let you do really neat stuff in your browser, like register your favorite webapps to open certain file types, and access your online data even when you're not connected to the 'net. To get a taste, see how you can configure Firefox 3 to launch Gmail for mailto links.

08.Stronger phishing and malware protection

Firefox 3 has stronger filters and protection against malware, phishing sites, cookies, and other tools that compromise privacy and security. A malware warning shows up when you visit sites known to install malicious software, Firefox 3 doesn't show the content of knock-off sites (like PayPal "Update Your Account" phishing scams) by default, and Firefox 3 checks against Google's ever-growing blacklist of phishing sites. Now you can feel even better switching your less tech-aware relatives over to the open-source browser

07.Improved download manager

Never wonder where a download came from, or went to, again. Gran Paradiso's download manager lets you search through recent files, resume big downloads after a crash or restart, and lets you keep an eye on your transfers in the status bar.

06.Native looks for every system

Your browser is a serious part of your computer time, so having it look like nothing else on your system can be seriously annoying. Firefox's designers made system integration a priority with this release, and it shows—even Windows XP's and Vista's button layouts have subtle differences in color and shading. There's differences at deeper levels, too, with Cover Flow-type styling in the add-ons manager for OS X, transparencies in key places in Vista and OS X, and other tweaks that make your browser feel like a natural extension of your system.


05.Streamlined "Remember password" handling

No more guessing whether you're saving the right password or clicking "Cancel" on unnecessary pop-up requests. Gran Paradiso only asks you to utilize its password-saving function once you're already in and sure everything worked, and it won't block you from seeing the logged-out version of a page if you don't want to sign in.

04.Smart bookmarks

Much like iTunes' Smart Playlists, Firefox 3's new Smart Bookmarks function can analyze your browsing habits and create lists of links based on it. The default bookmark toolbar only comes with three standards, "Most Visited," "Recently Bookmarked," and "Recent Tags" (more on that later), but it's none too hard to make your own.

03.Places Organizer replaces the Bookmark Manager

Previous versions of Firefox's bookmark organizer have been pretty utilitarian affairs that make you drag and drop your links around nested folders. With Firefox 3's new Places Organizer, those with reams of URLs can find them using boolean rule searches and multi-column results, as well as keep them better organized with a tagging system. Better still, you can save those smart searches for when you next need them.

 02.Smart Location Bar learns how you browse

 Like a personal assistant who telepathically knows when you're going to need just the right phone number (or Starbucks fix), Firefox 3's address bar, now dubbed the Smart Location Bar, helps you get to your frequently visited, or recently discovered, sites in super-quick fashion. That application you just read about on Lifehacker, but can't remember the name? Type "li" into your address bar, and Firefox instantly pulls the relevant sites from your history. The bar also learns through repetition, so the next time you start searching with "li," it knows you're looking for Lifehacker, not Linux.



01.Insanely improved performance

It's not flashy, and it doesn't have any social networking features, but Firefox 3's actual performance is the best reason anyone should consider upgrading, or making the switch to the 'fox. Firefox's engineers claim that their third major release is 9.3 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 in JavaScript performance, and 2.7 times faster than Firefox 2. This means snappier browser performance when you're using webapps like Gmail,

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How to Clear Google Search History

The search history that displays in the search box on the Google homepage is stored by your browser, not by Google. You can clear the history or disable this feature.

Follow the steps below to accomplish the task:

1. Login to your google account by visiting google home page at www.google.com

2. Once you have logged in--> Click on Settings.

3. In Settings page--> Click on Accounts and Import, and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Google account settings.

4. A new window opens up with the lot of options--> click on Web History.

5. Select Remove Items from the left pane of the window--> and then click on clear entire web history.

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Delete cookies using Firefox tools.

Cookies may be set by the server with or without an expiration date. Cookies without an expiration date exist until the browser terminates, while cookies with an expiration date may be stored by the browser until the expiration date passes. Users may also manually delete cookies in order to save space or to avoid privacy issues.

Look at the top of your opened Firefox main page and locate the “tools” option.

Select the tools option and look for the “options” selection.

Click on “options,” check for the privacy choice and click on that.

Check the box that says, “Accept cookies from sites.”

Look at the “show cookies” option and browse through the websites listed.

Choose whether you want to delete certain tracking cookies or all of them in one shot.

Remove all the tracking cookies by selecting the option, “Remove all cookies.”

Troubleshooting Internet Explorer in without Add-ons mode.

Troubleshooting Internet Explorer 7 in without Add-ons mode can find out the problem which occurs due to toolbars or add-ons.


following are steps to do this:

1) Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools, and then click Internet Explorer (No Add-ons). If your browser appears to be working properly in Internet Explorer (No Add-ons) mode, continue with the following steps to help identify which add-on may be causing the problems

2) To isolate the specific browser add-on that is contributing to the issue, you can use IE’s Manage Add-ons feature to pick specific add-ons to disable:

a) Click Tools -> Internet Options.
b) Click the Programs tab, then Manage add-ons (see figure below):

c) Select an add-on in the Name list, and then click Disable (see figures below):

d) Click OK and then close IE.

3) Restart IE normally and see if your problem is resolved.

a. If it is, you should uninstall the specific add-on via Control Panel’s Add/Remove Programs or the applications own uninstaller.
b. If the problem persists, you will need to repeat steps 1-3 until you have identified the specific add-on causing the problem.

Optimize Firefox and Reduce CPU and Memory Usage

Recent versions in firefox has fixed most of the bug's. But still you can minimize the CPU usage. Now let's optimize Firefox to use less memory and to work faster.

Reduce Number Of Addons
Addons can cause Firefox to use more memory when they're used and may not release their memory until Firefox is closed. So disable unwanted Firefox extensions.

How to Filter Tabs in Firefox

Its quiet confusing when lot of tabs opened in browser.Though Windows 7 provides gives preview of all browser window, we won't be able to filter this. So you have an easy option to search and filter tabs in Firefox, In order to filter through all the open tabs, simply right-click on the tab toolbar, and select "Filter Tabs". This will bring up the menu you see above.  Now, you can type in text to match a title, URL or both to show only the tabs you want to see.

Restoring Bookmarks in Firefox

There are different plugins are available in order handle bookmarks in Firefox, But if you delete bookmarks still you will be able to make use of previous day’s bookmark backup.

How to launch Firefox in Safe mode on Windows 7

If you are facing any issue with Firefox Safemode in firefox is one of the troubleshooting steps in Firefox. Using Safe Mode, you can reset few settings, also you can disable add-ons that might be the source of the issue.

You can click Start, selecting Run or use the Start Search box in Windows 7, Vista and then entering the following in the text field: firefox -safe-mode

Firefox: Increase the Page Loading Speed

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How to customize Firefox browser to increase the speed of page loading .
This trick is based on the concept of HTTP Pipelining. To utilize HTTP Pipelining,what you have to do is to just enable the HTTP pipelining in Firefox because it is disabled by default in Firefox version 3(or in greater version, It may not be supported in older versions, if so then first upgrade your firefox to 4).

•  Open Firefox Browser and type about:config in address Bar and hit enter.

• Now type network.http.pipelining in Filter box.

•  Change the value field of network.http.pipelining, from False to True (By Double Clicking on it).

• Change the value field of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests from 4 to 8(or more).

• You may like to change or not in third field,actually it is for servers that uses SSL.If you want then change it to true leave it untouched.

Note: Without HTTP Pipelining ,HTTP requests are sent out in successive order i.e one after another but If we use HTTP Pipelining then the request can be sent to the server more quickly that’s why the page loading time will decrease.Therefore the browsing speed will increase and surfing become faster with Firefox browser.

 

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Mozilla Firefox Tweaks for Faster Browsing

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