Firefox 3: Features released
The Mozilla-Foundation has released the upcoming features of Firefox 3.0. The browser will be released later (4th quarter of 2007) but will (hopefully) be better.
The feature list is classified with priorities:
- Mandatory – The set of features required as a minimum for this release to be complete. The product will not ship without these.
- Highly Desirable – A key feature that will make the product more complete, has great benefits to the end-user and major strategic impact.
- Nice to Have – Lowest priority feature that may be incorporated, dropping first in favour of delivering P2 items.
- Future – Intended for future release, included as they may influence design decisions and should be associated with the roadmap.
Some of the mandatory features include:
- Improve Add-On install experience – e.g. faster extension install without restart
- Provide an extensible bookmarks back-end platform – e.g. Places will definitely come in 3.0 (was planned for 2.0)
- Improved Printing Support – e.g. printed layout should look as rendered layout (something which up to now IIRC no browser can do properly)
A high-disirable feature which definitely will be a killer (if it is going to be implemented) is the included PDF printing. No more hassle with Adobe Acrobat ($$$) or Ghostscript.
