The browser provides virus, popup and spyware protection in a simple, easy to use tabbed interface

Firefox is a small, fast and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing.

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 15,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

More Secure

* One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you’re connected to. (Try it here!)
* Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
* New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
* New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
* Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
* Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
* Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
* Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
* Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
* Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.

Easier to Use

* Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
* Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
* New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
* Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
* Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
* Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
* Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
* Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
* Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
* Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
* Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
* Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
* Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
* Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
* Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
* Integration with Linux: Firefox’s default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.

More Personal

* Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
* Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
* Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you’re looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you’re seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
* Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
* Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches. Create and restore full backups whenever you want.
* Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
* Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
* Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.

Improved Platform for Developers

* New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
* Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
* Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
* A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.

Improved Performance

* Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
* Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
* Reliability: A user’s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.

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Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

Features

• Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
  
• Support of many popular image formats:

• True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
  
• Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
  
• Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
  
• Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.
  
• Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
  
• Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
  
• Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
  
• Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
  
• One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
  
• Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
  
• Histogram display with color counter feature
  
• Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
  
• Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
  
• Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
  
• Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV…)
  
• Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
  
• Print images with full page-layout control
  
• Create fully configurable Contact Sheets – just like the pros (and save $$$ on ink)
  
• Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
  
• Acquire images from a scanner
  
• Versatile screen capture capability
  
• Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
  
• Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
  
• Create a no-install fully portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
  
• Configurable mouse wheel support
  
• Supports multiple program skins
  
• Supports dual-monitor configurations
  
• And much more…
  

4 MB – free for home users! We use it. It is really cool soft!

Surf the Web easier and faster by opening multiple Web pages within the same application window.

Search Google, eBay, Amazon and more with Opera’s integrated search. You can also search directly in the address field using shortcuts (e.g. “g” for Google).

Opera lets you control whether to block all pop-ups, or open only the ones that you have requested.

Fast Forward will detect the most likely “next page” link and greatly simplify navigation in multi-page documents.

Opera’s password manager remembers your usernames and passwords so you will not have to.

Save a collection of open pages as a session, for later retrieval, or start with the pages you had open when Opera was last closed.

Opera supports mouse gestures, allowing you to perform certain movements with the mouse in order to access commonly used features.

Pressing F12 displays Opera’s ‘Quick preferences’ menu to easily switch settings such as browser authentication, pop-up and cookie preferences.

Notes can be kept in conjunction with a Web site you want to refer to later, to remind you of any particular information you may like to review again.

The voice feature allows you to control Opera’s interface by talking and to have documents read aloud. Voice is currently offered in English and runs on Windows 2000 and XP.

Opera displays security information inside the address bar, located next to the padlock icon that indicates the level of security present on a site.

Opera supports Secure Socket Layer (SSL) versions 2 and 3, and TLS. Opera offers automatic 128-bit encryption, the highest available security of any Web browser.

Opera can be configured to clear the history and cache when exiting, to protect your privacy. Any kind of private data can easily be erased at any time.

Opera gives you detailed control of what cookies to accept and reject, such as allowing for different set-ups for different servers.

Opera’s built-in POP/IMAP E-mail client is a combined e-mail program, news reader, mailing list organizer and RSS/Atom newsfeed reader.

Communicate with people all over the world using Opera’s IRC chat client. Chat privately or in rooms, or share files with your friends and family.

Using the ‘appearance’ dialog you can make Opera look almost any way you want. Move buttons and search fields, add and remove toolbars, and so forth.

Opera skins can give your browser the look you want. Make the browser your own by giving it the icons and buttons of your choice.

Opera’s user interface is translated into a multitude of languages, and the language can be changed on the fly.

With Opera you can zoom the contents of any Web page from 20%-1000% using the zoom dropdown or the + and – keys.

Text size and link styling can be changed using Opera. Text color and background color can also be customized.

Opera comes with a set of ready-made style sheets, including accessibility style, that can be used to override a Web site’s style set completely.

Opera prides itself in supporting all major Web standards currently in use, including CSS 2.1, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, WML 2.0, ECMAScript, DOM 2 and SVG 1.1 tiny.

When displaying a page in small-screen mode (Shift+F11) you can see how it will look on a mobile phone or other small-screen device running Opera.

You can validate the HTML code of any Web page by pressing Ctrl+Alt+v.

Graphics and style sheets can be toggled on/off via Opera’s menus and shortcuts.

The Info panel shows details about the currently open page such as MIME type, page size, character encoding and more.

Edit the source of any open Web page and view the result instantly by using ‘Reload from cache’ (Tools/Advanced).

The F11 key toggles Opera’s projection mode, using the whole screen for browsing and, if a projection style sheet is present, displays ’slides’ suitable for presentation.

Registered versions of Opera supports kiosk mode – a lock-down mode in which the browser can be used for unattended information stands in public environments.

What’s New in This Release:

· Line breaks in Notes are now preserved when sync’ing data
· application/x-msdownload files are not always saved with an .exe extension anymore
· Lots of improvements on certificates UI
· New look for the address field dropdown
· New cookie confirmation dialog
· Several stability fixes
· Several performance improvements to JavaScript
· Offline mode is improved
· Fixed a crash when reindexing mail
· Fixed problem fetching POP mail from web.de (and many other providers)
· Show “Password not displayed” instead of always showing six asterisks for Opera Mail passwords
· Improved POP performance when checking for new mail
· SMTP authentication will now default to Auto instead of None
· Fixed problem where many feed items were not downloaded.

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