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ADO to JSON 1.0
ADO to JSON is a useful Windows utility which you can use to turn any ADO SQL statement into a JSON file more>>
JSONRequest 0.9
Enables two-way data exchange with JSON data servers more>> XMLHttpRequest has a security model which is inadequate for supporting the next generation of web applications. JSONRequest is proposed as a new browser service that allows for two-way data exchange with any JSON data server without exposing users or organization to harm. It exchanges data between scripts on pages with JSON servers in the web. It is hoped that browser makers will build this feature into their products in order to enable the next advance in web application development<<less
Restlet 1.1 Milestone 2
Lightweight REST framework for Java more>> Lightweight REST framework for Java
Restlet is a REST framework for Java. It natively supports all REST concepts (Resource, Representation, Connector, Component, etc.) and is suitable for both client and server Web applications.
Restlet is capable to support major Web standards such as HTTP, SMTP, XML, JSON, WADL and Atom. Many extensions are also available to integrate with Servlet, Spring, Jetty, Grizzly, Simple, JAXB, JiBX, Velocity, or FreeMarker.
Do you want to embrace the architecture of the Web and benefit from its simplicity and scalability? Leverage our innovative REST engine and start blending your Web Sites and Web Services into uniform Web Applications!
System requirements:
- JRE 1.5 (or higher)
Enhancements:
- Fixed NPE in Connector class.
- WriterRepresentation was missing a default implementation for getReader() abstract method.
- If an error is found in HttpClientHelper.sendRequest(), StreamClientHelper ignores it and continues to parse the response when it should stop processing.
- Status.isSuccess(), is*Error(), isRedirection() and isInfo() methods now support status classes as specified in HTTP 1.1.
- The request ClientInfo address and port were not available for the default connector and the Grizzly connector.
- Fixed issue in SpringHost preventing usage of the setRoutes(Map) method. Replaced with a setAttachments(Map) method. Added Javadocs example.
- ResourceException wasnt setting a message.
- Representation.isAvailable() now returns false if the size is 0.
- Refactoring of HTTP server connectors code to better deal with HEAD request, 1xx, 204, 205, 304 status codes.
- Ensured all modifiable collections are properly documented in the API.
- Fixed Spring XML loading issue related to validation in SpringContext class.
- Fixed bug with the FileClientHelper returning wrong list of variants.
- Fixed bug in Tag.equals() implementation.
- Fixed NPE in the WAR client of the Servlet extension.
- Caught exception with Simple connector when flushing a closed stream. Now it is logged at a lower priority.
- Fixed NPE in the MediaTypes class.
- Fixed bug in SpringComponent preventing setting of clients.
- Fixed several bugs related to Grizzly (chunked encoding not working, restarting NPE, etc.).
- Added support for Alpha-numerical sorting of index pages in Directory.
- New setComparator, setAlphaComparator and setAlphaNumComparator methods added. The default sorting is now "AlphaNum".
- Added new JsonRepresentation constructors taking a Bean or a Map.
- Updated Spring to version 2.5
- Updated db4o to version 7.0
- Added a new parameter to ServerServlet allowing specification of a custom component to instantiate.
- Synchronized some list setters on Component and Connector with explanation in Javadocs.
- Guard.checkSecret() method now has a Request parameter.
- Added new constructors to CookieSetting.
- Filter.beforeHandle() and doHandle() methods can now indicates if the processing should continue normal, go to the afterHandle() method directly or stop immediately. IMPORTANT NOTE: as it isnt possible to add a return parameter to an existing method, the change can break existing filters. In this case, you just need to return the "CONTINUE" constant from your method and use "int" as return parameter.
- Added Handler.getQuery() method to easily return the requests target resource reference query as a parsed form (series of parameters).
- Added a Reference.clone() method.
- Added more fine-grained lifecycle for Components with new start*() and stop*() methods.
- Added the ability to specify a hostname verifier for the HTTPS client based on JDKs net package.
- Improved robustness of Reference when starting with an empty URI.
- Added Component.updateHosts() method to update the routes after dynamic changes to virtual hosts.
- Added format(Object) and resolve(Object,String) methods to Template to allow for custom variable resolution.
- Added new Spring NRE extension containing a SpringServerServlet facilitating the Servlet Spring Restlet trio integration.
- New classes that give even more integration option (RestletFrameworkServlet, SpringBeanFinder and SpringBeanRouter).
- Added "defaultMatchingMode" property on Router.
- Added "throwable" property to the Status class, respecting the immutability.
- Added "getEphemeralPort()" method on Server to get the local port actually used by the system when the "port" property is set to 0.
- Made the inner Template.VariableResolver interface and "format(VariableResolver)" method public.
- Added JiBX extension, alternative to JAXB.
- Added support for nested resources in WadlComponent.
- Resources with no variant set now log a warning on GET requests.
- Added static Representation.createEmpty() method to return a new empty representation.
- Added Variable.TYPE_URI_PATH to match any path character except in the query or fragment parts.
- Updated and tested the Atom extension to conform to the latest APP specifications. The extension currently allows to retrieve an APP Service Document and Atom Feeds.
- Added MediaType.APPLICATION_ATOM_SERVICE_XML constant.
- Lowered the logging level for some Simple IO exceptions.
- Updated JSON JAR to latest version.
- Externalized mappings between file extensions and media types in the MetadataService.
- Closed an open BufferedReader in IdentClient class,
- Updated FreeMarker to version 2.3.12.
- Added support for DIGEST authentication (client and server side).
- Added a WadlApplication class and refactored the WadlComponent to support many more usage scenarios:
- WadlApplication instances can now be added to existing components.
- WadlApplication instances can be modified to add filters in front of the root router
- WADL description documents can be retrieved via HTTP or other protocols
- Only the necessary client connectors are automatically created
- Added TEXT_JAVASCRIPT media type constant.
- Added MediaType.getMostSpecific(), isCompatible() and isConcrete() methods. Contributed by Stephan Koops.
- Guard is now setting a Principal instance after authorization.
- Refactored engine to support pluggable authentication.
- Updated Grizzly to version 1.7.2
- Added Engine.copyResponseHeaders() method.
- Handlers now return a SERVER_INTERNAL_ERROR instead of CLIENT_NOT_FOUND when no next Restlet is
- attached to them.
- Added Engine.formatCookie(), formatCookieSetting() and equivalent parse*() methods.
- Deprecated Status.isInfo(), replaced by isInformational() to follow HTTP naming.
- Updated HTTP server connectors behaviour in the purpose to avoid the sending of entity when the entity is empty, when the status explicitely forbids the sending of entity (e.g. 1xx, etc), or when the method must not send entity (e.g. HEAD).
- Updated HTTP client connectors behaviour in the purpose to close aggressively the connection in several identified cases when the status explicitely forbids the sending of entity (e.g. 1xx, etc), when the method must not send entity (e.g. HEAD), or when the Content-Length headers value is 0.
- Ensure that the headers of the responses entity will be retrieved even if no message body has been sent (in this case, an empty representation is created).
- Tutorial examples based on applications are now runnable with the Servlet adapter.
- Removed unecessary synchronized keyword on Application.createRoot() and added one to the setRoot() method.
- RIAP request are now considered confidential when dispatched.
XINS 2.2 Alpha 1
Java Web Services framework that accepts REST, SOAP, JSON-RPC and XML-RPC. more>> XINS is a Web Services framework. XINS is a technology used to define, create and invoke remote APIs. APIs are defined in a simple XML format. Then the specifications in HTML and in OpenDocument format, the test forms, the WSDL included the XML Schema, the Java client and server side code are generated from the specifications. APIs accept SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, Yahoo! JSON, JSON-RPC and more. Java, PHP, Perl and Ajax examples are provided. XINS has also command to generate unit tests, stubs or to run the API. XINS main focus is simplicity and usability.
Whats new:
* Fixed BeanUtils#populate to also populate from the data elements.
* Adapted the release process to the new Sourceforge servers.
Technical details are available in the Change Log file.<<less
xins.org - Java Web Services framework that accepts REST, SOAP, JSON-RPC and XML-RPC. XINS. XINS is a Web Services framework. XINS is a technology used to define, create andDomAPI Companion 1.2.0.6
The Companion is a reliable utility which can be used to push and pull just the changes from your local copy of the DomAPI more>>
Companion also contains a Document Type Definition (DTD) tester. This allows you to view any DomAPI test page in all 5 supported DTDs at once. The DTD tester works in either MSIE or Mozilla browsers.
Main features:
- Empowers you to build high-quality client-side GUIs using reusable components.
- Requires no plugins.
- Works on practically any DOM compliant browser on any platform.
- Enables you to quickly leverage the power of AJAX, RPC and JSON technologies.
- FREE for use on your personal website(s)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 / 3.0 SP1
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 CTP is a preview release of the latest version of the .NET Framework more>>
Microsoft plans to continue to invest in the .NET Framework developer platform and in support of existing users the .NET Framework 3.5 has a minimal number of breaking changes. So that existing applications built for .NET Framework 2.0 or .NET Framework 3.0 should continue to run without requiring changes.
The .NET Framework 3.5 adds new features in several major technology areas; including:
- Deep integration of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and data awareness
- ASP.NET AJAX for quickly creating more efficient, more interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers
- New web protocol support for building WCF services including AJAX, JSON, REST, POX, RSS, ATOM and several new WS-* standards
- Full tooling support for WF, WCF and WPF including the new workflow-enabled services technology
- New classes in the base class library (BCL) for the .NET Framework 3.5 address the most common customer requests.
.NET Framework 3.5 is planned to release at the end of 2007 and will ship with Visual Studio code name ?Orcas? and will also continue to be available for separate download from MSDN.
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (which is formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
These new technologies are Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace (formerly code named "Infocard"). Microsoft plans to ship .NET Framework 3.0 as part of the Windows Vista operating system. In addition, Microsoft is making these technologies available on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
.NET Framework 3.0 can be installed on any of the following systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- Windows XP SP2
- Windows Vista *
Windows Vista comes with .NET Framework 3.0. There is no separate installation package required. The standalone .NET Framework 3.0 packages are not supported on Vista.
System requirements:
Processor
Minimum:
- 400 megahertz (MHz) Pentium processor
Recommended:
- 1 gigahertz (GHz) Pentium processor
RAM
Minimum:
- 96 megabytes (MB)
Recommended:
- 256 MB
Hard Disk: Up to 500 MB of available space may be required.
Display
Minimum:
- 800 x 600, 256 colors
Recommended:
- 1024 x 768 high color, 32-bit
New Web protocol support for building WCF services including AJAX, JSON, REST, POX, RSS, ATOM, and several new WS-* standards. Full tooling support for WF, WCF, and WPF, including the new workflow
Sync2Its Bookmark synchronizer 2.3.2 Build 10.0
This software keeps your browser bookmarks and favorites synchronized. more>> This software keeps your browser bookmarks and favorites synchronized, regardless of how many different browsers you use, or how many different computers you use. Once your bookmarks are synchronized, you can view them from any computer or mobile device: an Internet kiosk, an Internet cafe, PDA or Palm device, or even your WebTV set. You can also share bookmarks with friends... and you can have instant access to your friends bookmarks through bookmark subscriptions.
You can also easily syndicate your bookmark folders to your blog or website, allowing any changes to your folders to be automatically updated on all your websites. These are available as either javascript or JSON feeds.
It is important before doing the initial synchronization on one machine using multiple browsers, that all instances of FireFox be closed. FireFox will overwrite its bookmarks.html file on exit, undoing all the merging done by Sync2It and forcing all browsers to only contain Firefoxs bookmarks.
When you first start the Sync2It client, it will attempt to login to the Sync2It server, so you must have already created an account on the Sync2It website before running the client for the first time. After logging in it will download any bookmarks contained on the server, then it will gather the bookmarks from all browsers installed on your machine. (You can deselect any browsers that you dont want to be kept in sync by opening the settings window and unchecking the various browsers in the dialog box). Sync2It will then write back out the merged bookmark set ( or the server bookmarks if you chose the overwrite option) to all browsers.
Synchronization Complete!
After Synchronization, your browsers will all contain the same bookmarks and any changes to bookmarks in one browser, will automatically be updated in all other installed browsers and also to the Sync2It website where the changes will be downloaded to any other PCs running the Sync2It software.<<less
Bing API SDK 2.0
Bing API SDK functions as a Software Development Kit including a Compiled HTML Help file and code samples for developing applications with the Bing API. more>>
Bing API SDK 2.0 functions as a Software Development Kit including a Compiled HTML Help file and code samples for developing applications with the Bing API.
The Bing API Software Development Kit provides:
- A Compiled HTML Help file that documents core concepts, available protocols and SourceTypes, and reference infomation necessary for developing applications with the Bing API.
- 65 code samples covering each of three protocols (JSON, XML, and SOAP) for each SourceType in multiple languages (JavaScript for JSON, Visual Basic and C# for XML and SOAP).
- Supported Operating Systems: Linux; Windows Vista; Windows XP
AutoPager 0.5.1.3
Load the next page when you reach the page end in your Firefox browser. more>>
AutoPager 0.5.1.3 is an extremely useful add-on for your lovely browser Firefox! It is also called a FireFox extension which automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content. It includes a adblock similar features to allow you filter out the ads from the contents in the loaded page contents.
It works well with most of the greasemonkey scripts. By default AutoPager works with a ton of sites, including Lifehacker, the New York Times, Digg, and, of course, Google. If you want to add your own custom autopaging to unsupported sites, the site wizard feature makes it easy (first pick the Next link, then pick only the content you want loaded.
The site workshop provide more features like auto discovery the links and content. It's configuration is base on XPath. You can find there is a built in function to create a XPath by click some links on the pages. This extension will import online configuration from this sources, these configurations includes support for some widely used sites and some general support for forums. You can also share your site rules by click public button in the setting dialog.
Major Features:
- Use json as rules persistent format, which reduces memory usage and improve performance
- Improve paging performance by skip loading images in next pages. The images will only be load after the pages are merged. You can set quick load to false in the rule if this doesn't work for your site.
- Allow auto paging in backend
- Better ajax support, more sites can be supported
- Allow reorder repositories
- Added autopager.include-unsafe-rules option, default to false. An unsafe rule can be a rule for web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content
- Enable chinalist for chinese user
Enhancements:
- Fix an error in handling urls show in the page break
- Track update
- Fix bugs in update which lead to failed rule update
- Better handle frames and more small fixes
- Handle mozilla event relocation. This make AutoPager works on some site which it doesn't support before
- Use json as rules persistent format, which reduce memory usage and improve performance
Requirements: no special requirements.
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NoScript 1.9.9.14
NoScript is considered as a professional and great program that provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock browser: this extension allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice. more>>
NoScript 1.9.9.14 is considered as a professional and great program that provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock browser: this extension allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice. This whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities with no loss of functionality. You can enable JavaScript/Java execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click on the NoScript status bar icon or using the context menu in pop-up statusbar-less windows.
Major Features:
- Better compatibility with Google Translate, Abine and Travelocity.
- Improved embedding reload policies.
- Revamped Embedding (previously known as "Plugins") features, including WebFont blocking.
- NoScript Options|Embeddings|Forbid / preference to control HTML 5 media blocking.
- NoScript Options|Embeddings|Forbid @font-face preference to control WebFont blocking.
- Improved Google Analytics surrogate script, handling form submissions.
- X-Frame-Options default exception for https://mail.google.com/* as a parent, to allow GreaseMonkey scripts and extensions like Integrated GMail to embed Google Calendar inside the GMail inbox.
- Improved bookmarklet emulation, supporting complex asynchronous remote imports.
- Better control over X-Frame-Options support: now it can be disabled either globally or per-site, by setting the noscript.frameOptions.enabled and the noscript.frameOptions.parentWhitelist about:config preferences, e.g. for allowing seamless Google Calendar integration.
- Several XSS injection checker enhancements.
- Strict Transport Security support.
- New and improved Recently blocked sites menu helps detecting active content sources which have been blocked but don't belong to the current page (e.g. those imported by extensions such as Ubiquity or Cooliris).
- Better integration with the "Private Browsing" Firefox features: when exiting private browsing, both recently blocked sites and temporary permissions are "forgotten".
- Complete HTML 5 media (audio and video) blocking on untrusted sites.
- New layer of inclusion protection, checks whether 3rd party script and CSS files are served with proper content type.
- Improved ABE rules syntax, now supporting raw IPs and subnets in address prefix/mask form.
- New option to turn off ABE notifications (in NoScript Options|Notifications).
- ABE (Application Boundary Enforcer) module providing protection against CSRF attacks.
- Protection against internet to intranet attacks (e.g. router hacking from the web) thanks to the built-in SYSTEM ABE ruleset.
- New Import/Export buttons in the NoScript Options dialog, backup the whole NoScript configuration in a single JSON file, as a disconnected alternative to the Weave/XMark synchronization functionality (Fx 3 and above).
- Several speed, usability and stability improvements in the new NoScript preferences synchronization feature (Fx 3 and above).
Enhancements:
- Fixed page loading issues (hard to reproduce but reported by many)
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1
Check out the latest pre-release of the upcoming Firefox 3.5. more>>
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is supported for the developer to preview of Mozilla's new generation Firefox browser and this is only with testing purposes. It is based on the new Gecko 1.9.1 Web rendering platform, an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use.
Major Features:
- Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate) is the seventh development milestone of Firefox 3.5, the next version of the Firefox web browser. While this release is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and members of testing community to use for early evaluation and feedback.
- Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year.
- Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users.
Enhancements:
- This beta is now available in more than 70 languages - get your local version.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
Requirements:
- Operating Systems
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- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Minimum Hardware
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- Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
- 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
- 52 MB hard drive space
Support for native JSON, and web worker threads, Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, Downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript queryLicense:Freeware
Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation, support for native JSON, and web worker threads, support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, downloadableLicense:Freeware
Browsing using web standards for geolocation, support for native JSON, and web worker threads, support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, downloadable fontsLicense:Freeware
Firefox Portable 3.5.1
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on June 30, 2009 No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox 3 is full-featured, lightning fast, and an able foe for both the big-dog competitor Internet Explorer and more>>
Firefox Portable 3.5.1 is designed as an extremely quick,convenient and rich features for either big-dog competitor Internet Explorer or competitors nipping at its heels. Firefox's killer add-ons remain strong, and the latest update makes version 3.5 about two times faster than version 3. However, competition is strong and it can no longer be said that Firefox is the fastest browser available.
Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Several notable improvements in the latest revamp keep Firefox abreast of current browsing tech. Along with Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that renders Web applications faster on Firefox than ever before, there have also been improvements to the layout engine Gecko for faster page rendering. The new Private Browsing brings a feature to Firefox that competitors have had for a while: the capability to turn off cookie and history logs. Users also have more granular control over cookies, history, and bookmarks in version 3.5 via the redone Clear Recent History option under Tools. Geolocation courtesy of Google has been activated by default in Firefox, so that generic searches such as "city hall" will come closer to pegging the government offices nearest you.
Web developers should be excited about expanded support for HTML5 local storage, downloadable fonts, and native support for OGG-formatted embedded video. ICC profiles, SVG transforms, CSS media queries, native JSON support, and Web worker threads also get lots of love from v3.5. There's no doubt that Firefox 3.5 is a must-have, but it's an update that's more about keeping the browser current rather that blazing new trails.
Support for native JSON, and web worker threads. Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering. Support for new web technologies suchVirtual Bugzilla Server 2.1
A virtual machine with pre-installed Bugzilla more>> A virtual machine with pre-installed Bugzilla
Virtual Bugzilla server is a virtual machine with pre-installed Bugzilla. Instead of spending hours (sometimes days) installing Bugzilla, why not just download a ready-to-use server?
Virtual Bugzilla server is a VMWare virtual machine. You will need a free VMWare Player to run the server. Technology developed by VMWare, Inc will allow you to run a separate "guest" operating system as a regular application.
System requirements:
- Free hard drive space: 500mb recommended;
- Memory: 256mb or more (the server will take 64MB).
Enhancements:
- Upgraded Bugzilla to 3.0.1;
- Upgraded Testopia to 1.3 (over a separate Bugzilla 3.0);
- Upgraded system packages;
- Fixed problem with JSON package in Testopia (#527);
- Installed VMWare Tools in the VM.
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 / 3.0.3 / 2.0.0.17 / 1.5.0.12
The browser provides virus, popup and spyware protection in a simple, easy to use tabbed interface more>> The browser provides virus, popup and spyware protection in a simple, easy to use tabbed interface
The Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozillas browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
Firefox is a small, fast and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing.
Main features:
- Comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop;
- A tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page youre on;
- Integrated search (powered by Google);
- Industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing;
- Simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively;
- A streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable;
- A large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser.
System requirements:
- Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
- 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
- 52 MB hard drive space
Enhancements:
- More Secure
- One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company youre connected to. (Try it here!)
- Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
- New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
- New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
- Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
- Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
- Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
- Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
- Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
- Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.
- Easier to Use
- Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
- Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
- New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
- Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
- Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
- Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
- Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
- Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
- Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
- Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
- Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in "word-by-word" mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
- Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
- Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
- Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
- Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
- Integration with Linux: Firefoxs default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
- More Personal
- Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
- Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
- Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page youre looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that youre seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
- Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
- Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches. Create and restore full backups whenever you want.
- Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
- Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
- Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.
- Improved Platform for Developers
- New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
- Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
- Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
- A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.
- Improved Performance
- Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
- Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
- Reliability: A users bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.
Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks. - Easier to Use - Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after aLicense:Freeware
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