First Hands on Firefox 3 (Address Bar)
17 June 2008, Hedi |
Flawless! That’s a fact. And a beautiful interface! Like many others I’ve noticed the fact pages are lighter in Firefox 3 than Safari, I did the Apple.com test to see the difference, and.. no doubt, it’s like HD (Safari) compared to standard definition.
First, wanted to say it was not very bright to overwhelm their servers while they wanted to break a world record of downloads in a 24 hours period… The servers were off for hours…
Let’s first analyze the address bar:
- Type in a URL and it acts like Spotlight through your history; same thing with the Google menu (with popular searches)
- Favorites are marked with a star, clicking on the star adds the URL to your bookmarks (very cool)
- The RSS logo is now blue (a color, we, Mac users love more than the old orange)
- When you type in a URL, the “go” button appears as a blue “Play” logo, didn’t like it all, but it’s just a detail
- The address bar changes when you visit a secure page like PayPal reacts as a phishing center, increasing your security while browsing in sensitive websites, that is a very cool feature!
- Try to drag your Tabs to re-organize them and you’ll get an ugly thing compared to Safari’s smooth animation
- Firefox 3 has a very nice glow effect when you point your mouse cursor on one of the tab, you’ll see the site’s favicon glowing, Apple’s looks awesome!
That’s all I noticed for the address bar.
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