New Firefox 3 browser released, Internet will run out of addresses by 2010

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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A new version of the open-source Mozilla Firefox Web browser is scheduled for released with improvements in security; speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. A new “Places” feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged, and pages they visit frequently. There’s also a new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list – similar to what’s already available on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 browser. Other new features include the ability to resume downloads midway if the connection is interrupted and an updated password manager. In a nod to the growing use of Web-based email, the browser can be set to launch Yahoo’s service when clicking a “mailto” link in a Web page. Firefox will also block rather than simply warn about sites known to engage in “phishing” scams that trick users into revealing passwords and other sensitive information. Microsoft is currently testing Internet Explorer 8, while Opera Software ASA released Opera 9.5 on Thursday.Internet will run out of addresses by 2010The Internet will run out of addresses in another two years as only 700 million separate addresses are remaining for allocation out of the 4.3 billion available on the present network. When originally developed, Internet planners assumed four billion IP addresses would serve the world when using the Internet, The Australian reported. In order to address the situation, all Internet users would have to move to an upgraded platform – called .Internet Protocol v6. This technology would allow access to the 340 trillion-trillion-trillion new addresses needed to connect not only billions of new users, but also the trillions of sensor devices that will require networking as technology takes greater control of people’s lives.