Firefox 3 is now available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X as a free download from

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Lots of news reports about the release of Firefox 3.0 with apparently more than 8,000,000 downloads in the first 24 hours, and to-date the number of downloads stands at 10,557,198 (9:30 GMT)

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

With over 14,000 improvements, including the revolutionary smart location bar, malware protection, and extensive under the hood work, Firefox 3 delivers the Web without compromise. It uses significantly less memory and is overall two to three times faster than Firefox 2.

First impressions

One of the things you notice right away is the Smart Location bar. As you enter your location, the system displays matching sites from your browsing history, bookmarks and tags as you type. This can make it easy to find the site you want to visit.

You can bookmark pages with a single click on the star icon in the location bar. If you return to a bookmarked page, the star icon  will illuminate to remind you it has been bookmarked. Two clicks on the icon allows you to assign tags (labels) to the page. Then you can use improved features in the new Library for managing and searching your bookmarks.

In an attempt to make your web-browsing experience safer, security has not been forgotten with extensions to the existing anti-phishing mechanisms introduced in Firefox 2, easy access to site identity information, a re-engineered Password Manager and additional security for Add-ons

One feature of the improved User Interface includes the Full Page Zoom that allows you to zoom in or out of the entire page you are viewing. Firefox will recall your zoom state the next time you visit the page.

Built on the Gecko 1.9 engine, Firefox 3.0 is 2 to 3 times faster overall than the previous version, and hundreds of memory leaks have been fixed which will help to keep memory usage under control.

See Firefox in action HERE or visit the web-site at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ to download and enjoy the Firefox 3.0 experience for yourself.

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You can open multiple home page tabs when starting IE or Firefox as shown below:

In IE

Open the General tab from the menu item Tools…Internet Options

and simply enter the address of each page you want to open in a separate tab on a different line in the Home Page list box, as indicated.

In Firefox

Open the Main tab from the menu item Tools…Options

and add the address of each page required separated by a vertical bar ‘|’ character as shown.

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A web debugging proxy which is used to log traffic between an application and the internet. It allows you to “fiddle” with the in-coming and out-going data.

Available for Internet Explorer and Firefox amongst other applications.

Details available from

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

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