Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Browser for Windows

For fans of Firefox, Mozilla's increasingly popular multi-platform Web browser, today is a big day indeed: It's the official launch of Firefox 3 (Windows only -- Mac and Linux releases are imminent). So, what's new? What's exciting? What's the big deal?

For starters, the developers claim Firefox 3 is significantly faster than both 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7. That's always good. The new Places Organizer lets you tag, manage, and search bookmarks -- a big improvement over the old bookmark manager. Firefox 3 also delivers improved security features, better password management, resumable downloads, and an auto-completing location bar:

Type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for.