Things move speedily online, and Firefox has made the engine that can run to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2. As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will be more responsive.
Firefox 3.5 offers several enhanced features:
Security and Privacy
When this feature is enabled, you won’t leave a single browsing fingerprint behind for others to discover. If you give a second thought about having visited a certain Web site, this feature, you can remove every trace of that site from your browser. Firefox protects you from viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware. If you accidentally access an attack site, it will warn you away from the site and tell you why it isn’t safe to use. Clear all your private data or just your activity over the past few hours with a few quick clicks. You have full control over what to delete, and then your info is gone for good—on your own computer or the one at your local library.
In another development, To Windows 7 users of the new beta release of Firefox, three new features are available to them. Firefox 3.6 beta 1 introduces improved previews for both the new Windows 7 taskbar and the tabs.
The taskbar previews for tabs delivers Firefox into parity with Internet Explorer 8 which allows users to see and choose their open tabs via Aero Peek. The limitation with this feature is how it effects the display when you've got a high number of tabs open. As you open more tabs, their preview panes would shrink.
Others will require a bit of fiddling while the taskbar preview will work without manually changing settings in about:config. Therefore, they're not recommended for new users, or for those who just aren't comfortable tweaking the about:config.
As long as you have three or more tabs open, the improved Control + Tab will show you a preview window of your tabs. To activate it, go to about:config, search for browser. ctrlTab. Previews, and to change it from False to True, double-click on it.. Then restart Firefox, and the CTRL+Tab hot key will give you Aero-style preview pane of your tabs.
A revision to the List All Tabs feature provide it a visual component mimicking CTRL+Tab. Using Control + Shift + Tab combo, you can pull up a CTRL+Tab tab preview window that combines a search box. As you type in the name of the tab you want to call up, it will filter the tabs. Enter or the left mouse button will take you to the tab directly. To activate this one, go to about:config, search for browser.allTab.previews, and double-click on it to change it from False to True. Then restart Firefox.
You can also disable the Windows 7 taskbar preview by going to about:config, search for browser, Taskbar, previews, enable, and double-click on it to change it from True to False.
Remember that this is a beta and be prepared for Firefox to break compatibility with many add-ons.
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