Standblog - Mot-clé - firefox3Tristan Nitot sur la technologie, l'Internet et les libertés numériques2024-03-19T18:09:38+01:00Tristan Nitoturn:md5:82ecb6a121c45d09243dc58cde2a1c14Dotclear10 reasons to choose Firefox 3urn:md5:018aef82ab3048a8bf6d0d4a41847d6c2008-04-19T10:49:00+02:002008-04-19T10:49:00+02:00Tristanencompetitionfirefoxfirefox3 <p>As we're getting closer to release Firefox 3 (in June), I'm often asked why should people switch from their existing browser, which was bundled with their PC. The short answer is that <em>their old browser is obsolete</em>, and I genuinely mean this. But this leaves too little space for people to really understand the actual benefits of using Firefox 3. So I whipped up the following list:</p>
<h3>Ten reasons to choose Firefox 3 over your obsolete browser</h3>
<h4>Safer browsing</h4>
<ul>
<li>1 - Proven security track record, with more frequent, transparent updates, so that you use a safer browser</li>
<li>2 - malware protection to be protected against unwanted downloads such as viruses and trojan horses</li>
</ul>
<h4>Better browsing, with thousands of improvements</h4>
<ul>
<li>3 - <a href="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/17/628/">Awesome bar</a>, so that you can find places you've been before with a couple of keystrokes</li>
<li>4 - "Save on exit" so that when you launch Firefox, you're immediately ready to surf, with last windows and tabs open</li>
<li>5 - Remember passwords without a dialog box, so that you decide to save the password <em>after</em> you've logged-in</li>
<li>6 - New download manager, users can pause a download and resume it later, with a search box to easily retrieve previous downloads</li>
<li>7 - Customizable: change the look and feel (themes) and add features (extensions) to Firefox through the built-in add-ons manager. More than 5,000 community-built extensions are available for free!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Better performance</h4>
<ul>
<li>8 - Fastest on complex Web applications, such as GMail so you are more comfortable, even on old machines</li>
<li>9 - Uses less memory than any other browser, so you'll get more mileage out of your computer</li>
<li>10 - Moving the Web forward by supporting advanced Web standards so that the Web keeps evolving and benefits users in the long term.</li>
</ul>
<p>I tried to sneak in the Open-Source / Free / Libre concept in here, but as I try to stay as concrete as possible, I found it hard to make clear in a few words why this was directly benefitting users...</p>