FireFox 3 Beta 3 Take 2

My last post about FireFox 3 Beta 3 was more of a simple overview of what was going on with this version. I'm going to go into some more detail and outline some features of FireFox 3.Quicker bookmarking and addon searching. Searching your history, and unified theme.

Bookmarking Websites is a feature pretty much everyone uses. FireFox 3 simplifies the process of bookmarking a site by adding a star icon in the URL bar. When you click it once, it quickly book marks the page, and the star goes from gray outline to a golden star. When you click the star again, you unbookmark it. If you click the star twice you get a nice popdown where you can set tags and the folder to store the book mark, as well as the name of the bookmark. This makes bookmarking web pages quick and simple.

Previously, searching for add-ons required you to visit Mozilla's site and search that way. In FireFox 3, they added the ability to search for add-onsright in the add-on window.
The search is very fast, and mostly accurate. It will only show results that are compatible with your version of FireFox. This feature saves lots of time weeding through long lists of add-ons, and having to deal with compatibilities.

Although I don't know what to call this feature, it is my most favorit feature of FireFox 3. When you type a word or phrase into the URL bar, it will search your history for that word. So it will search the page's title, URL, and content for whatever the keyword you type in. This is best shown through a screenshot.
Lastly, unified themes. FireFox 3's default themes match the OS. Whether its XP, Vista, Linux or OSX, FireFox 3 now matches the OS its running on. Especially for those running on OSX, this is a big deal becasue previously FireFox did not look very Mac-ish and didn't feel right with the rest of the OS.

FireFox 3 Beta 3 has some great features. Enhanced bookmarking, add-on searching, URL bar search, and unified theme makes FireFox 3 something to definatly keep on the radar.