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Mozilla launches Firefox 3 RC 1

Mozilla Corp on May 16, 2008 launches Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1. It is promised to be more secure, easier to use and more personal over its predecessor.

In its official website, Mozilla lists down a bunch of “what’s new” in Firefox 3. From the list, I am more interested and looking forward to the followings:

• Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
• New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
• Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
• Location bar & auto-complete: 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. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you’re seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
• Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).

Okay, above are 5 of the new things that I will be trying once I installed my Firefox 3. I’ve just finished downloading the .exe. The file is not that big – at around 7MB.