A BROWSER
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et us lay out a hypothetical situation for you: You’ve
been driving that lumbering old Crown Vic since Ken
Starr was culturally relevant. It’s clunky, not particu-
larly fast, and prone to breakdowns, and it lacks any sort
of sex appeal. But you’re used to it, and it’s not like you’re
made of money, right? Suddenly your benevolent (and
extremely wealthy) uncle calls you up and off ers you a Tesla
roadster. It’s fast, sleek, and technologically advanced, runs
without gasoline, and is sexy as all get-out. And he’s giving
it to you for free. Do you take it?
Hell yeah, you take it. And if Uncle Mozilla off ers you
a fast, light, open-source, wildly confi gurable, sexy web
browser, you take that too. Internet Explorer’s a clunker,
and if you’ve somehow managed to go the past four years
without switching to the roadster that is Firefox, it’s high
time to take a test drive. If you’re already a Firefox user,
well, here comes your supercharger.
Firefox 3, the latest version of Mozilla’s champion web
browser, is on the horizon, and it promises to make the
best browser in the world even better. Firefox 3 brings to
the table smart bookmarks, more effi cient memory usage,
a vastly improved location bar, tighter security, and more.
Join us as we dig deep into Firefox 3 Beta 5 for a look at the
future of web browsing; we’ll show you the features power
users should care about and give you tips for getting all that
you can from your new favorite browser.46 | MAXIMUMPC | AUG 08 | http://www.maximumpc.com
Mozilla’s new open-source browser adds power-user
features to transform life on the Internet
BY NATHAN EDWARDS