Firefox 3.0 beta 3 rounds of Light on competition

The new beta version of Firefox 3.0 is drawing brilliant comments, emerges by some estimates to be a “killer IE”

With months of Mozilla to fulfil its promise of the release of Firefox 3.0 to the public in the first half of 2008, the company has just introduced its third candidate of the beta version of the browser, leaving only a beta version of the left . This indicates that Mozilla is on track to meet its intention to release time. And if the initial comments of the beta version of Firefox 3.0 to 3 are believed Mozilla might be able to release the browser today with little concern if there were too many.

Although, of course, Mozilla will have their time, and adhere to refine the fourth candidate beta, the third beta version looks much more like a candidate before they finish their brothers. The first beta focused on the speed and lean and visibly surprised testers faster page loads that the current generation of Mozilla, Opera, Apple, Microsoft and browsers. The next beta version of this new speed maintained while beefing of security with a series of major improvements and some minor changes to the user interface.

Now the third beta has delivered significant changes in user interface, which for the most part, it seems that the navigation is more comfortable experience. The new marker incorporated in the tool bar URL has been adjusted to be much more intuitive. A series of changes have taken place graphics among these is a new “keyhole look for the button backwards and forwards, in which a large circular button backwards rests snugly next to a small curve forward button. The two dropdowns navigation buttons, which appears on all previous versions of mozilla have been merged into a single drop, providing a full history.

The new beta version also takes subjects equally well default Windows and Linux, to help blend perfectly with your desktop environment. In the construction of Linux can take GTK topics, styles of Tango, icons or GNOME equivalent with ease. The integration is reported to be so good that the browser seems literally GNOME application, which will be nice for some users of Linux. Mac users can also encourage and OS X issues are finally included. In addition, to support Mac users native widgets in the forms is also implemented, opening up many new possibilities.

The tabbed interface now allows drag and drop tabs in a window, seemingly natural, but so far not characteristic. The status bar also has an indicator download added, which gives a visual quickly update downloads. Besides the URL autocompletion algorithm has been improved significantly, allowing searches smarter to help you return to the pages that are visited frequently faster.

A key new feature is the inclusion of a built in the add-on manager. All supplements have been part of what fueled the popularity of Firefox, which can add functionality to everything from ad-blocking to RSS feeds. Now users can use the built in the manager search, find and install add-ons without having to go to add-on page again (previously, users had to go to page on the website Mozilla).

While Microsoft plans to disclose key aspects of its new Internet Explorer browser MIX 8 at its conference in March, the browser is still a long ways away from their “late 2008″ release date. In the aspect of Firefox 3.0 beta 3, those months lying between the final version of Firefox 3.0 and the version of Internet Explorer 8 can be particularly long and painful for the team IE from Microsoft, and who are forced to play as a spectator Mozilla offers a wide Improved browser.

The third beta version of Mozilla is available here for those willing to give it a test drive.