Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available 330
The Mozilla folks have made available the newest release of the Firefox web browser. This release is for testers and developers only, and should not be used if you have no interest in trying out the latest build. The release notes cover the recent changes. From the what's new document: "Fast back (and forward) - This very experimental feature allows much faster session history navigation. The feature is off by default but can be enabled for testing purposes by setting the browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers preference to a nonzero number."
Extensions (Score:5, Interesting)
Graphical History (Score:3, Interesting)
Thumbnails of where the user has been, linked in an easy to follow graphical manner. It would make finding sites of interest (where one has forgotten where they found them) so much easier.
Re:Fast back (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Graphical History, how to start (Score:4, Interesting)
When someone writes some writes some code to implememt an API that Robert O'Callahan wrote for the upcoming release. The API renders web pages to images [mozillazine.org].
Right now Mozilla/Firefox use a rather crusty history file format, Mork [mozilla.org]. There are plans to replace this history file with sqlite (Bug 245745, not until Gecko 1.9) which would make an extension writer's job a bit easier.
Re:Firefox 1.1 (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Tabs: go extension hunting (Score:3, Interesting)
Tab opening - Open new tabs next to the current one with a customizable order
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Re:New browser features (Score:3, Interesting)
So what? Some people prefer the Opera UI and will use that as their default browser, others prefer the way Firefox is designed. What's wrong with copying the best features off other browsers? There's not one browser fits all.
I think Firefox is better designed for users that want a relatively simple interface whereas Opera comes packed with just about everything but the kitchen sink (it'll be in version 9.0).
So to me Firefox and Opera appeal to different people. They both support standards and provide competition to the browser world so I like to see both grow.
Re:New browser features (Score:5, Interesting)
CSS 3 (Score:3, Interesting)
That other browser can't even get CSS 1 right, and won't be implementing CSS 2 features in the edition that is supposed to be out this summer.
Speaking as somebody who has come close to throwing his PC out of the window this morning because IE doesn't do z-indexes properly, which means that I have to look for a yet another workaround to cope with its breakages.
Re:New browser features (Score:2, Interesting)
Firefox is fairly stable, more so than most of the alternative browsers I've tried. It still leaks memory, but you can afford to restart your web browser every day or so.