First Look: Firefox 3 review

Security

Instant Web Site ID

Certain sites will offer up security information to prove its legitimacy. This information is available by clicking in the site ‘Favicon’ on the left of the address bar. To test this yourself, go to paypal.com to try it out.

Mozilla has also beefed up the anti-Malware and anti-phishing protection and will present you with full size warnings when there’s a problem.

Performance

One of the problems with the previous versions of Firefox was that they had a tendency to eat memory. Mozilla claims that it has tackled this issue and that a new memory management functions keep usage under control and that it has a smaller memory footprint.

The browser also now uses the Gecko 1.9 engine, which is designed for standards compliance and speed so pages should load faster.

Have you moved to Firefox 3.0 or are you still stuck with IE due to company policy? Let us know at itpro@dennis.co.uk, or leave a comment at the end of this article.