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.
Yes, this new release of Firefox is amazing!
Firefox 3 will bring many changes for all Mac users (mostly good), as this is the first release of Firefox that is built primarily using Cocoa for the underlying Gecko 1.9 engine (a project that’s been in the works for years). Along with better redraw speed (CoreGraphics vs. the older QuickDraw API) and improved memory handling, the new engine provides the groundwork for a pure-Cocoa, 64-bit clean version of Firefox in the future. Firefox 3’s UI is more Maclike now, with Aqua-style widgets improving the view.
You can read more here.
While Apple is seeding a preview version of Safari 4 to developpers, the 3rd version of Firefox is going to be shipped today!
A great even for the Firefox users!
The download link will be turned on at 10 am PDT.
If you can’t wait, you can still download Firefox RC 3 from here.
The key new feature for this beta is Facebook chat support.
You can download it from the beta page or enable “Update to beta versions when available” in the Adium General preferences.
Often, Quicktime updates coincide with iTunes updates. Since we know that the 3G iPhone will require iTunes 7.7, we suspect that’s what the “application compatibility” refers to. Apple recommends this release for all QuickTime 7 users. Note that a restart is required.
The final version has finally been released, this new version has a great new feature, it gives you the ability to save flash animations like the ones you see in YouTube or Daily Motion.
This is a surprise, since it wasn’t enabled in the beta version of Real Player! Now I understand better why CosmoPod needs you to have Real Player installed!
Download Real Player 11 here.
You can easily install an application on a jailbroken iPhone, but a few number of apps is really worth mentionning.
MxTube is simply destined to directly download and watch YouTube videos on your iPhone.
It combies stability & ease of use.
Even its icon is gorgeous!
To try it, just search “MxTube” on Installer and you’ll get it!
