Firefox 3

As many of you are techies, you would probably have heard the buzz surrounding Firefox 3 the past couple days. In an attempt to break the record for the software downloaded the most times in a day, their server crashed and did not allow users to connect. Some of the new features include one-click bookmarking, smart location bar, password manager, and improved performance.

I challenge you as a web developer to considering switching to Firefox if you have not already. Firefox has great extensions such as ColorZilla, Firebug, Web Developer Extension, and much more. All these tools can aid your web development

Now you may say, the majority of users will use IE right? Well the key is to develop it in Firefox which forms its pages in a standard way and then check in the rest of the browsers and fix the css bugs in them.

I figure this is a good time to spit out some recent browser stats. As of April 2008 IE7 holds about 25% of the users, IE6 is still high at 29% (you can’t just drop this browser out of your development process), and Firefox has 39%.

The real key to web design is keep all browsers in mind. It might not look perfect in all of them, but at least fail GRACEFULLY!

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Written by Brenley Dueck