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Safari adoption on Windows. We'll see!
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On mobiles, things are really different. The lack of mouse,big screen, tabs, mouse and keyboard means that we need to reinvent the userinterface. I'm not sure that anyone has found the right thing for Mobile, and we're workingon it. My colleague Aza Raskin has just posted a video aboutthis It's just a concept, but it does show the issues that browsers onmobile are facing.
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On top of this, we encourage people to install Firefox 3 assoon as it is released, on June 18th (the official date is the 17th, but it'son Californiatime, which means the 18th for us Europeans). For this, we aim at setting a newrecord of the most downloaded piece of software in 24 hours. We're doing thiswith the Guinness book of records. You can pledge right now onspreadfirefox.com. AS I write this, UKis ranking #7 behind Poland,Brazil, Italy and France. I am sure you can do betterthan this!
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We also have added some functionality in the user interfaceso that users have better information on the site they are visiting. It's the "siteidentification button".
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less memoryI love this because older computers are comfortable again for browsing if yourun Firefox 3, and complex Ajax applications such as *Webmails (GMail, Y!Mail) are also morepleasant to use on Firefox 3, because they are significantly more responsive.
When it comes to user experience, tons of things have changed,on top of the Awesome Bar, the new bookmarking system and the password managerthat I mentioned earlier. Some of the nice improvements include a new Download Manager, Full page zoom, the new Add-onsmanager. There are so many of these improvements, it's hard to list themall. There is a shortlist, available, though.
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