Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate is Out
In Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1, Mozilla hasn’t changed much about the browser’s basic look, but many usability are changed. The Release Candidate means the intermediate step between the Beta and final version.
Both history windows and the bookmarks window are displayed together in an Structured Query Language (SQL) database. Several new options are now available, including dragging an URL from the history column directly into a bookmarks folder. Also, a new Smart Bookmarks offers a complete categorization of the user’s folders, guided by the most frequently visited, recently bookmarked, and recently tagged web sites.
On the security front, the phishing site filter from Firefox 2, which uses a blacklist to block known phishing pages, now has the ability to block known malware-pushing sites as well. And faulty-fingered surfers everywhere will appreciate the revised password saver. Instead of having to decide between saving and canceling a password before you know whether it’s the right one, you can now decide after logging in.
Mozilla has improved Firefox’s memory management and speed. With four test sites (CNN, Netvibes, PC World, and Yahoo Mail) loaded, version 3 used less memory than Safari 3.1 did: 81MB to start and 85MB after an hour, versus 94MB and 95MB for Safari 3. It also perfomed well in the SunSpider Javascript test, with a score of 3.61 seconds; Safari 3.1 failed to break the 4-second barrier on this test.
Source: PC World
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