Firefox 3 Features

January 11, 2007 in Firefox, Microformats by Carsten Pötter | Comments

Percy Cabello of Mozilla Links has a comprehensive list of features for Firefox 3. The new browser generation should be released in Q3 of this year.

Some outstanding (to me) features include:

  • Handling of files by web services. Hopefully Percy is assuming the correct consequences.
  • Support for Microsoft CardSpace and OpenID
  • Saving websites as PDF
  • Support for microformats (see Microformats and Firefox 3)
  • Installing add-ons without rebooting Firefox

There are some great and innovative features planned, however not all of them are top priority, of course.
OpenID and microformats will get some major promotion if Firefox supports them natively. I think this will be crucial for their success because there won’t be any add-ons needed anymore and therefore they are more appealing to users who are not interested to install an add-on or even some third-party application.

Maybe even Sam Sethi’s vision of Yahoo becoming a third-party OpenID provider will become true and they also add support for microformats to recently acquired MyBlogLog. Just a vision but would be great nonetheless.

Tags: Microsoft, MyBlogLog, OpenID, Sam Sethi, web services, Yahoo

  • Thomas H.
    The addon without reboot feature is enabled in recent nightly builds which I've been using for ages now. And right now FF update all my addons without a problem. I'd love to see the microformats in action without operator, which i gave a try due to your blog! ;) I'm not quit sure right now, but it seems promising. The OpenID thing is something I'm still skeptical about.

    BUt I think al ot of people will complain that the PDF Function an all other things will slow down FF more. But it's quite a good browser, even if opera seems superior.
  • Carsten Pötter
    Well, hopefully new features won't slow down Firefox. Mostly people have too many add-ons installed. Many add-ons = bloated and slow browser.
    Never tried Opera. Maybe when I'll have some more spare time.
blog comments powered by Disqus