Firefox 3.5 Features: Advanced User Experience
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by ashwin
Privacy
More ways to maintain your privacy while you’re online:
BrowsingSet your browsing mode to private and leave no trace of past Web history. | Clear HistoryDelete where you’ve been on the Web after the fact—simple and easy. |
Pick Your PrivacyRemove the history of your visits to a particular site but retain the rest of your browsing history. | Easy OptionsFirefox asks you straight up about how to store your history and gives you fine-tuned privacy control over the Awesome Bar. |
Tabs
Tabs in Firefox keep getting better. Turn a tab into its own window instantly—tabs now tear off to stand alone when you want them to. Need a new tab? There’s a convenient button for that, right in your tab bar.
Awesome Bar
We’ve raised the Awesome Bar even higher. Now get more privacy and customization when you choose to display or hide bookmark or history matches. New autocomplete keystrokes match keywords to your choice of bookmarks, history, titles and tags, or URL. And we’ve tightened up your keyword search experience all around.
Site Identity
Firefox’s site identity button now displays the domain name for SSL, making it easier to notice when you’re entering or exiting a secure connection and to determine who you’re connected to.
More UE Goodness
Firefox has so many new features, some just defy categorization, like multi-touch gestures for OS X and Windows 7, which make overall navigation easier. And autocomplete is now part of how you bookmark, so tagging is easier and more intuitive. You can even edit tags for a bulk of bookmarks right in the library window. If things crash, Firefox automatically restores your experience. And now you can get recently closed windows back in a single click. Plus, we’ve given your browsing history an easier-to-use timeline so you can quickly find pages you’ve been to before.