New Firefox!
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Short post today! Firefox 3 is now official. Go download it! There are some nice new features that I’m sure you’ll learn on your own.
Read on for my favorite change.
In Firefox 2, after you typed your username and password into a site, a Firefox pop-up dialogue box appears asking if you’d like to save the password for next time. You can choose “Yes”, “Never for this site”, or “Not Now”. The web page won’t load unless you respond to the pop-up. Since I am hardly ever sure if I used the right password, I usually choose “Not Now”, so that I won’t accidentally save the wrong password.
Firefox 3 asks you the same question, except instead of an obtrusive pop-up, it uses an attractive drop-down dialogue bar right under the menu bar. The page continues to load even if you don’t respond Why is this so great? Now I can wait to see if the site accepted my password. Once I see that I used the right password, I click “Yes”. Firefox will no longer save an accidentally mistyped password!
A small change, but much more usable!
P.S. I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been helping shoot a movie (!), have been trying to reorganize my office at work, just got a tablet PC (it’s used, but it’s awesome!), been moving a lot of furniture into my apartment, and I’ve adopted a new exercise regimen.)