Field Guide to Firefox 3 : What's New and Improved?


	Field Guide to Firefox 3 : What's New and Improved?
Djiezes
6-17-2008 9:04 AM
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Djiezes says:
Since today is Firefox 3 Download day, here's a field guide on its new features.

I see you cannot download it yet, but you should be able to shortly.
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margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P>For more, see <A href="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/">Firefox 3: Color profile support</A> by Deb Richardson.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A name="download"></A><B>Download manager</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A title="download-manager by deb.richardson, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deb-richardson/2571017091/"><IMG width="300" height="150" alt="download-manager" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2571017091_ea11601c74_o.png" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P>For more, see <A href="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/09/650/">Firefox 3: History</A> by Deb Richardson.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A name="html"></A><B>HTML Canvas</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A title="html-canvas by deb.richardson, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deb-richardson/2571016507/"><IMG width="300" height="125" alt="html-canvas" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2571016507_e42a320dd9_o.png" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P>For more, see <A href="http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/06/04/html-canvas-in-firefox-3/">HTML Canvas in Firefox 3</A> by Vlad Vukićević.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A name="location"></A><B>Location bar UTF-8 support</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P>For more, see <A href="http://blog.johnath.com/index.php/2008/05/21/mal-what-firefox-3-vs-bad-people/">Mal-what?  Firefox 3 vs. Bad People</A> by Johnathan Nightingale.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A name="microformats"></A><B>Microformats API</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/"><P><A title="microformats by deb.richardson, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deb-richardson/2571842308/"><IMG width="80" height="80" alt="microformats" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2571842308_e70005e845_o.png" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/">how to <A href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipffoxmicroapi/">use the new microformats API in Firefox 3 extensions</A>, and <A href="http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2008/05/20/where-are-the-microformat-in-firefox-3/">Where are the microformats in Firefox 3?</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/950EC1B7-8EEE-4AA7-A865-BC961B31745B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>