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Firefox is fast becoming a popular browser for the masses. Firefox 2 has been a worldwide hit and now Firefox 3 is being developed at full pace and is scheduled to launch later this year.. For all those curious readers of dailyApps, here is a sneak peak into the User Interface of Firefox 3.

Firefox 3 will include some significant changes. It uses version 1.9 of the Gecko rendering engine, which itself hasn’t been released yet and which includes the Cairo graphics layer. There are also a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, and security, and it’s also going to present several new user facing features.

• Bookmarking Revisted

Places is our new infrastructure for storing bookmarks, history, and other information about Web pages. The current implementation of the Places system is still a work in progress, but the final version will support features like bookmark tagging, full-text indexing, extended metadata search, built-in syncing functionality, and support for exporting bookmarks in a broader number of formats.




Also present in Firefox 3 will be an Bookmarks Manager that will make managing Bookmarks a breeze.

• Malware Detection

Similar to how Firefox 2 blocks Web sites that are potentially going to try to steal your personal information, Firefox 3 will block Web sites that we believe are going to try to install malicious programs on your computer. Mozilla is coordinating with Google on this feature.



• Content Handling

Firefox currently has different dialog boxes for dealing with content depending on if it has a MIME type, is a protocol, is being delivered through RSS, or is an application being downloaded. In addition to unifying our internal architecture for content handling we are also working on a unified content handling user interface. The user will have a consistent UI for selecting the actions they would like associated with content, regardless of if the content is a file being download or is a microformat embedded in a Web page.



• Microformat Detection

You will see you mouse cursor changing and interact with microformatted content in the context of the Web page.



• Private Browsing

The purpose of private browsing is to put Firefox into a temporary state where no information about the user’s browsing session is stored locally. When in this state, the appearance of the location bar will change:

Firefox 3 is still in Alpha so if you have anything to say to the firefox team or you would like to help them out please follow the links given below.

• Provide feedback on any of these above features in their respective threads
• Create your own User Interface mockups of these Firefox features, using your favorite image editing application

Via Mozilla Blog