{"id":157,"date":"2008-06-18T02:08:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-06-18T02:08:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T07:08:46","slug":"three-reasons-to-go-get-firefox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/three-reasons-to-go-get-firefox-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Reasons to Go Get Firefox 3."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 3 is officially out, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">go and get it<\/a>.\u00a0 Wondering why you should be excited about a new web browser?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s three quick reasons why you should got get Firefox 3 now:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 It is <strong>much, much faster<\/strong> when it comes to complicated javascript, AJAX, and multiple iframes.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any benchmarks on me, but I do some pretty intense stuff with Firefox and the improvement is immediately apparent.\u00a0 This is very important because even normal web browsing is becoming pretty intensive, from Google Maps to Gmail to normal blogs with 100 widgets plastered on their sidebars.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 It&#8217;s even <strong>easier to manage add-ons and downloads<\/strong>.\u00a0 The real power of Firefox is the ease of creating and installing extensions, and the interface has been improved making it easier to find new add-ons.\u00a0 The download manager has been polished as well, which should help end the old &#8220;where did that file go&#8221; blues.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 The <strong>smart address bar is very cool<\/strong>.\u00a0 I almost never have to finish typing urls anymore&#8230;\u00a0 and it gives me immediate feedback on typos as well.\u00a0 Hopefully this will put a damper on lame business models like typosquatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 3 is officially out, so go and get it.\u00a0 Wondering why you should be excited about a new web browser?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s three quick reasons why you should got get Firefox 3 now: 1.\u00a0 It is much, much faster when it comes to complicated javascript, AJAX, and multiple iframes.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any benchmarks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[280,278,20,281,224,243,279],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-browser","tag-extensions","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-3","tag-gmail","tag-google-maps","tag-smart-address-bar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}