Firefox 3 seems to be getter better and better with the release of each nightly. This time, they’ve added smooth scrolling which looks pretty impressive. When you open too many tabs, they overflow and scrollers appear on both ends. Instead of roughly stepping, Firefox 3 will smoothly animate to show more tabs.
This feature is pretty hard to explain by words, so Ryan has put up a small video which helps us understand better:
Not a regularly usable feature, but surely make navigation a lot simpler when you open too many tabs. I definitely love this feature, but some argue that it gulps memory, so an option to turn this feature off would have been cool. You can try it out by download Firefox 3 nightly from here. Any clue if the same feature is available for Firefox 2 as an addon?
[via: CyberNet, Mozilla Links]

wrote, on August 17th, 2007
Hey thilak this feature can be turned off very easily by editing this parameter in about:config
toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll and set it to false and restart the browser..
wrote, on August 18th, 2007
Karthik: Thanks for the speedy tip. Lets hope they put-up a much simpler option in the preference menu to turn it off.
wrote, on August 18th, 2007
Thats really cool. I regularly use only firefox, absolutely love ab browsing and mostly have more tabs that can fit. Just love the way firefox keeps giving us amazing addons and plugins. It totally rocks. Best browser by far.
wrote, on August 18th, 2007
Amazing! I hope ff3 will be quick out of beta version. Best browser by far indeed.
wrote, on August 19th, 2007
I’ve been waiting ever since they introduced tabs for something like that. It just looks awesome. Certainly beats IE.
wrote, on August 19th, 2007
Looks good, I really need to get FireFox. I’m still with old IE, I never particularly saw any reason to change over to FF until recently I found out about all the amazing plugins available!
Isn’t there some kind of referal system with Firefox?
wrote, on September 1st, 2007
I am a fan of firefox since i used it first time around 2 years ago. Since then, its improved a lot. Its always nice to see your favourite opensource program doing well
wrote, on October 12th, 2007
Firefox really rocks!!!! I used firefox and i curse Internet Exploerer