Tuesday July 1st, 2008 | Posted in Technology

FireFox 3.0

FireFox 3.0 has been released, but the mozilla site has been inundated and is now down (as of the morning of Tue 1st July 2008). You can still get it from various mirrors though. I got mine from Mac Update. Get yours today, it’s well worth it. Gone now are all the things that used to irritate me about older versions. Mainly the UI and the awful form controls (buttons, radios, checkboxes, etc.). The new UI is a little twee in my opinion, but a major improvement on the old one, and the new features make it my new browser of choice over Safari. It loads pages really quickly, and the Netscape legacy image loading placeholders are finally done away with.
 

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Stephen David Smith is a multimedia designer and web designer currently based in tokyo.  When he's not scripting interactive environments in Flash or designing usability for websites, he's down the arcade playing Taiko no Tatsujin or creating animation and music on his laptop. He's influenced by the Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, as well as the 'throw-away' nature of modern Japanese popular culture.
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