Supercharged Firefox 3.0 taking shape

Whilst off-line AJEX based apps would be ace, i can see firefox's major problem being that Internet Explorer will not support such features. With a new version of IE probably years, most web companies are likely to be reluctant to design features only compatible with firefox.

Similarly i would be reluctant to use a web based program only compatible with firefox, because there is likely to be times when i can only use a computer with IE installed.

Thanks to the new cairo-based rendering engine in Firefox 3.0a3pre (Minefield), Firefox 3.0 already renders noticeably faster, with better support of SVG and antialiasing of corners when using the -moz-border-radius property.

I really don't see the big deal about offline use of AJAX based apps... Isn't the world getting more connected everyday? Who really needs to use web apps disconnected??? Actually in doing so you are taking away some of the key features of web based applications... what happens if you do a bunch of stuff on your local machine "offline" and then your hard drive crashes before you get a chance to sync up with the app? Don't get me wrong... I understand the desire to access things while not connected but I would imagine that by the time applications start implementing that kind of thing we will be even MORE connected... just a few years ago a cell phone didn't have internet capabilities... now you can't find a cell phone that doesn't... maybe more effort should be put into making web applications compatible with mobile platforms rather than work on a "store/forward" type feature that seems kind of old school?

Despite IE being to full of security risks, it has a couple of nice features that I would love to see implemented in FF.

(1) The tab summary screen. This is the new function where a small thumbnail of each tab's contents can be viewed. That is cool!

(2) The trusted/non-trusted security zone. I like this because it would allow me to turn off scripting for common browsing. But leave it one for trusted sites that I visit frequently, such as my bank. I think it is a lot better than FF's all or nothing approach to web site privileges.

I wouldn't mind them simply fixing Firefox's memory leak. So far, my record is firefox.exe using 1.1GB of memory after a week or so of not closing the program.

Ron, install the Tab Preview extension...

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/

@ Ron:
Although Firefox doesn't really have security zones, you might try NoScript - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
Ah, wonderful Firefox...if something is missing, it can usually be made :)

@ Ron:
Although Firefox doesn't really have security zones, you might try NoScript - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
Ah, wonderful Firefox...if something is missing, it can usually be made :)