Re: User Friendly 1 March 2008

Mark Jackson <mjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Antonio E. Gonzalez wrote:

Sooo . . . any news on what's gonna make Firefox 3 so much better
than Firefox 2?

"More secure, easier to use, more personal, improved platform for
developers, improved performance." Details:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b3/releasenotes/#whatsnew

I'll be happy if it just removes this annoyance:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_error_opening_Internet_shortcut_or_local_HTML_file_-_Firefox

It doesn't really hinder anything from functioning, so I'm not anxious to
bumble around in my registry to make it go away, but it's irritating.

--
Sherwood Harrington
Boulder Creek, California
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