Well what was great about 2007 is probably repeated by everyone:

• iPhone
• Facebook
• Vista – yes you may laugh but despite its faults it still made improvements on the desktop market

But rather than predict what may happen in 2008, I would rather just tell you about what I’d like to see in the hope that someone sees this and can make it happen.

A 3G iPhone I think we all know is coming in 2008 but I’d like to see this on more carriers in the UK than just O2 who are the devil incarnate. If this doesn’t happen then I can see a lot more pressure to get iPhones unlocked and portable between networks.

I’d also like to see a new Apple notebook based on similar tablets that are available on the PC side which incorporate touch technology similar to the iPhone. I’ve always fancied a tablet but the only one that I have ever come close to buying was the Toshiba Protégé R400 though that is still a disappointment in certain areas and I now feel only Apple could get it right.

I would also like to stop seeing cases like the current Opera browser against Microsoft. I think Opera need to look in the mirror to work out why they aren’t getting market share rather than trying to jump on a band wagon almost and bash Microsoft. Apple package a browser and in either case it hasn’t done anything to hurt Firefox, maybe it is just because the Opera browser just doesn’t work as well. The only good thing that can come out of this case is to see Microsoft becoming standards compliant, which as a developer I stand right behind Opera on.

I’d seriously like to see the Zune challenge the Apple iPhone next year – at the moment Apple is running away with it and that’s fine, they are great products but a little competition has a nice way of keeping people on the straight and narrow which would be ironic for Microsoft

Oh and finally this -

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In short I love it, I’ve always been a fan of Firefox and although the last version had a few issues that wound me up almost to the point of reverting to the previous version this version as far as I can tell addresses those issues and continues to build on what is a really great browser.

Nowadays we spend most of our time in our browser as our lives become digital, not necessarily a good thing as seen in the news recently, but in any case we want a browser to be secure and usable and that is one thing that Firefox has always been.

Some of the new security features that Firefox 3 introduces includes more information on the site you are viewing especially if it is a secure site so that you know more about where you are. The first of these are the quick references about the identity of site which can be seen by clicking on the icon as seen below.

This is the non-SSL screenshot:-

The SSL version:-

By clicking on the ‘Tell me more about this site…’ you get the security page from the redesigned page info window. This give you greater information on the site you are on and allows you to tweak preferences for this site surrounding privacy and security.

Changes to how the password manager now prompts to store an entered password are in so you can now decide after knowing the password is correct or not and avoid cluttering auto complete lists, aleo sites known for serving spyware, rootkits, viruses, diallers and other kinds of malware will trigger an antimalware alert. The list of known malware sites is provided by stopbadware.org and served by Google.

Finally not a security feature but will lead into the next post on Firefox 3 and that is that currently Firefox has moved to full page zoom rather than text only…

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