Some of the most buzzworthy features of 3.5 are its performance features. It leaves a smaller footprint, which means that it uses less of your computer’s memory while it is running. Firefox has also improved their graphics engine with improved Color Profile Support which, depending on the quality of your monitor, will make your images more crisp and vibrant. On top of that, page load is faster and memory management has been improved by continuously cleaning up any unused memory, but the top performance feature Firefox has added is the Super Speed feature. With Super Speed the browser is 3 times faster than Firefox 3 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2.

The new browser is also fully customizable. It has over 6,000 add-ons, which is a tremendous improvement from previous versions. In addition to being able to mold Firefox to fit your personal style, you can add different search engines, edit toolbar preferences, form the navigation buttons to your liking, and a multitude of other customization features.

The location bar, referred to as the Awesome Bar, has also been drastically improved. It now allows quicker navigation to the sites you like to visit, you can simply type in a site you’re looking for and it delivers all matching results. This feature is particularly useful for those hard to remember URLs. The Awesome Bar also offers one-click bookmarking and improved tagging.

Firefox 3.5 has a lot of handy features, but beware that compatibility has been an issue for some people, so before you upgrade be sure it is compatible with everything you need to run. Here we have just touched on several of the newest improvements but there are still many many more. To here more about these features watch the video above, and you can download Firefox 3.5 for yourself here.

]]> http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/07/checking-out-what-the-new-firefox-has-to-offer/feed/ 31 http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/02/mike-mcdonalds-tip-of-the-day/ http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/02/mike-mcdonalds-tip-of-the-day/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:59:28 +0000 admin http://mcvideo.webpronews.com/2008/02/01/mike-mcdonalds-tip-of-the-day/ Mike McDonald of WebProNews has a tip for today that explains two plug-ins for Firefox. These plug-ins allow you to have quick and easy access to SEO information about your site, compare your site to other sites, detect where you stand with inbound links, as well as many other helpful factors. The tools are SearchStatus and Aaron Wall‘s SEO for Firefox. To find out more, check out the video right here on WebProNews.