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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 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?

Filezilla - This is an Open Source ftp client. It’s very easy to use and has lots of features like site manager, message log, file and folder view, and the transfer queue. I only used Filezilla recently, and I feel it is a very good open source software to upload your files to your ftp, webhost..etc.

Click on Image to enlarge.

Features:

• Easy to use
• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more
• Available in many languages
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
• Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
• Drag & drop support
• Configurable Speed limits
• Filename filters
• Network configuration wizard

Changelog:

• Install some default filters if filters.xml missing in user’s settings directory
• OS X: Fix remote file viewing/editing
• Additional fixes for SFTP servers with nonstandard filename encodings

Download: FileZilla 3.0.3

Click here to go to Filezilla Home Page

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……

Firefox -  It is an alternative web browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox is more secure, fully customizable and has lots of new features like spell checker, tab browsing, advanced bookmarking/history functionality (upcoming version of Firefox) and many more features that Internet Explorer lacks. Highly recommended and it’s FREE!

Bugs that are fixed in 2.0.0.9 :

• Bug 400406 - Firefox will ignore the “clear” CSS property when used beneath a box that is using the “float” property. There is a temporary workaround JS/CSS code available for web developers with affected layouts.
• Bug 400467 - Windows Vista users will get “Java not found” or “Java not working” errors when trying to load Java applets after updating. To fix this, users can right-click the Firefox icon and “Run as administrator”, then browse to a page with a Java applet — doing this once will fix the problem and permanently restore Java functionality.
• Bug 396695 - Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache)
• Bug 400421 - Removing a single area element from an image map will cause the entire map to disappear. There is no workaround available at this time.
• Bug 400735 - Some Windows users may experience crashes at startup. There is no workaround available at this time.

And many more. Have you updated to the latest version yet? If not, startup auto-update or download it now!

Due to the fact that Firefox version 2.0.0.8 introduced a few regression bugs in which in some Windows system, Firefox will crash. Another bug is that add-ons will be disabled. However, it seems these bugs doesn’t affect everyone and some might not even noticed it. Read more about it here.

Bugs that plagues version 2.0.0.8 :

• Bug 400406 - Firefox will ignore the “clear” CSS property when used beneath a box that is using the “float” property. There is a temporary workaround JS/CSS code available for web developers with affected layouts.
• Bug 400467 - Windows Vista users will get “Java not found” or “Java not working” errors when trying to load Java applets after updating. To fix this, users can right-click the Firefox icon and “Run as administrator”, then browse to a page with a Java applet — doing this once will fix the problem and permanently restore Java functionality.
• Bug 396695 - Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache)
• Bug 400421 - Removing a single area element from an image map will cause the entire map to disappear. There is no workaround available at this time.
• Bug 400735 - Some Windows users may experience crashes at startup. There is no workaround available at this time.

So, if you are using Firefox, make sure automatic update is turn on to receive updates to these bugs when version 2.0.0.9 releases!

Photo by Flickr user nobihaya.

How EXTREME can IE fans get? I just want to see.

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?