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Download it now. For Malaysia, start downloading today(18th June 2008). Help the Firefox project set a World Record!!!! Malaysian time is set from 1am (18th of June 2008) to 1am (19th of June 2008).

You can test out Firefox 3.0 Released Candidate 1 now.

Click here to download Firefox 3.0 RC 1. (WARNING : SOFTWARE IS A RELEASED CANDIDATE. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!)

Why even bother with Firefox 3, you may ask?

Well, here are some of the features in Firefox 3 that you should know!

URL bar powered!

More information in the url bar. And it even has a gmail style star!!!

Build for Security!

You know you are going to the actual site, instead of a phishing website!

If you click on a suspicious link, it will warn you about it!!!

And many more features, you can read them up on them here.

You can test out Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 now.

Click here to download Firefox 3.0 Beta 1. (WARNING : BETA SOFTWARE ARE UNSTABLE. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!)

For Mac user, click here. (yeah, you wong!)

Click on the articles below to know some interesting features you might get in Firefox 3.0. However, just be reminded that they are all beta features, they MIGHT be dropped or not.

• Firefox 3 : Redesigned download manager.
• Firefox 3 : Visual Separation?
• Firefox 3 : Security Larry

Due to ’so-called-leaks’ about Firefox 3 Beta 1, I also leaking Firefox-tan…oh wait, this isn’t leaking since this was done a few years ago by someone. Besides, anyone can just download the nightly builds from Mozilla.com ftp using a ftp client like Filezilla. So, where is the leak?

The upcoming Firefox 3 which is planned to be release in the first quarter of 2008, will have newer “cutting-edge” features as compared to Firefox 2. You can find their planned feature list here.

Apart from the new redesigned download manager,  the upcoming Firefox 3 will probably have a better anti-phishing security system. Codenamed ‘Larry’, it incorporates better security features when accessing banking, financial, online stores and many others secured website where important information are transmitted. It will verify that the location you are accessing is a genuine website and not a phishing website!

And if you happened to land on a phishing site, you get this

Firefox 3 will protect you from phishing website, but at what percentage? At this development stage, it really works well, but what if a website that is well crafted by those crafty people? Is ‘Larry’ good enough to protect from them? Maybe as ‘Larry’ gets updated, it will get better, as Firefox 3 will only be out next year.

to be continue……

According to Alex Faaborg, Mozilla’s interface designer in his blog, he mentioned about divergent of themes for different platforms. So, Windows Xp, Windows Vista, OS X..etc will feature their own default themes when Firefox 3 is released (hopefully) sometime next year. He also gave a few screenshots on what to expect for Vista and OS X. Too bad he didn’t gave any Windows XP screenshot.

OS X

Vista

I know this isn’t much, but it’s what you might be expecting from the upcoming Firefox 3. What do you think? Should Firefox 3 have a unified or diversified skin?  Or will it turn into “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” along with those supporting the idea and those opposing the idea having a huge war over it?

The upcoming Firefox 3 which is planned to be release in the first quarter of 2008, will have newer “cutting-edge” features as compared to Firefox 2. You can find their planned feature list here.

I am writing this since I am using their Trunk builds, which is term as the “cutting-edge” builds. (meaning it has all the alpha, beta, development, testing features.) Features in these builds are for TESTING PURPOSE ONLY. It might or might not be implemented into the final release.  However, some of these features are what you might expect from the upcoming Firefox 3. It’s very “cutting-edge”. Hopefully.

First up there is a newer download manager being tested on the Trunk build.

Firefox 3 “Planned” redesigned download manager.

This new download manager has been redesigned and has a build-in search feature.  is a one click run button.  is an one click info button about the file you download.

Firefox 2 Download Manager

From my opinion,  the new redesigned Download Manager looks much better and with the one-click buttons is simpler and more user-friendly.

However, as the new download manager is still in it’s development phase, there might be more features added to it. So, expect a “cutting-edge” designed download manager when Firefox 3 ships.

to be continue…..