What's in store for Firefox 3.1

by Brad Linder Jun 13th 2008

Sure, Mozilla is preparing to release the final version of Firefox 3.0 next week. But that doesn't mean the development team is going to take a break anytime soon. You can take an early look at some of the features that will be included in the next version of Firefox. Here are a few of the things planned for Firefox 3.1:

A new visual tab switching feature will work like the Alt+Tab switching feature in Windows Vista (in other words, you can see thumbnails of open tabs). If you want to check out this feature before it's officially added to Firefox, you can download the Ctrl+Tab extension for Firefox 3.0 now.
Download history will be added to Places.
Support for bulk bookmark tagging and tag autocompletion

Firefox 3.1 alpha is scheduled for a mid-July release.

[via Mozilla Links]

Tags: ctrl tab, firefox, firefox-3., tab-switching

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Christopher Finke said 2:48PM on 6-13-2008

Tagged: "no-rest-for-the-weary"

Josh said 5:32PM on 6-13-2008

...it had better not look that crappy on OS X. Then again, Firefox in general looks crappy on OS X. Proto was a horrible choice for the new default theme. They should seriously get the GrApple guys to take care of the theming.

kingbt said 10:55AM on 6-16-2008

Seem to be nice aditions for FF3.1 but there is much work to be done on curent versions.
http://www.nasul.net

Naveen Kumar SR said 7:35AM on 8-26-2008

Hi

Can anybody advice me where the browser's (any browser) added bookmarks will store in Red Hat Linux 4 AS and in which file system or a folders' ???? as like in Windows it saves in Favorites folder. And we can copy them from user to user. If i would like to copy the same from one user to other user in Linux how can i do that????

Thanks a lot

Naveen Kumar SR
naveen.k.sr@gmail.com

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