Firefox 3 New Feature and Release Schedule

[drhayden1]

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Schedule

The latest nightly releases of Firefox 3 have a new feature in them that allow you to select items on a site that are not all adjacent to each other. This is often called discontinuous selections, and the result is something similar to the screenshot that I posted to the right.
They designed it to be much like a normal text editor such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer where you just hold down the Control key while making multiple selections. Then you can copy and paste it into a document or text editor.
This feature will actually be pretty useful for me when copying and pasting things from websites, and it is just the beginning of the good things that are yet to come. There aren’t any precise dates set for Firefox 3 milestones, but they gave a rough timeframe for the future releases as well a list of features to expect:

Firefox 3 Alpha 4 – Late April 2007
Places
Safeguard against data-loss
Bookmarks never lost between sessions
New Password Manager
Growl integration for Mac OS X
Search engine keyword support
 
Firefox 3 Alpha 5 – Late May 2007
Places
Sync infrastructure
API for extensibility (this makes it easy to integrate with other bookmarking services)
Backup and restore
 
Firefox 3 Alpha 6 – Late June 2007
Places
Sync client
Unified organizer
Starring
Tagging
Export to other applications
Full-text indexing
Extended metadata search
Improved performance
Download manager improvements
 
Firefox 3 Beta 1 – Late July 2007
No new features
 
Firefox 3 Beta 2 – Late September 2007
No new features

[FreewheelinFrank]

Along the same lines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6528849.stm

[polonus]

Hi drhayden1,

These features can also be had through already available add-ons, Session Manager and Febe are nice examples. Password Managers are not for me, too insecure. Download Manager and ditto scanner are also available as extensions (4 non resident scanners on board), I'd rather would like to have seen an Ipdfilter support and the new anti phishing suite, of which the present version by default is broken now, that is why I use the Netcraft toolbar. I did not even read they have brought the httpCookiesOnly add-on in, which they promished to do for the 3.0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3629 this a follow-up on an anti-phishing security measure inside IE6/7. Better to have things as Stealther and Cookie Editor right there beside the cursor...
So, not really that impressive,

polonus

[FreewheelinFrank]

More Firefox 3.0 news:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/10/mozilla_security/