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Firefox Chief shows off new browser

Firefox 3 from Mozilla has more than 15,000 new features. Tristan Nitot, the founder and president of Mozilla Europe, came into the Sky News studios to show Technofile's Martin Stanford some new features.

It's been in the making for three years, so there are, between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, there are more than 15,000 changes, so it's, I mean, it's a really completely new version.

What we do is we store, we store locally your navigation history and we enable you to search through this navigation history and find information very quickly. And so nowadays that the big, you know, news is about Obama, so I am going to go there and search for Obama. I start typing Obama, I have many web pages on our list, so I have tons of suggestions about Obama. But I remember this was something that appeared on sky.com and so this is it: I type Sky on top of Obama and then I get a list of pages and it was also a bit about Clinton and there we are. I can select this and I, I see the article that I was, I was visiting before but I couldn't remember the address. I didn't bookmark it per se. It's just that, well, because I visited sometimes ago, it's now showing up. This happens to be an interesting page, so I'm going to bookmark it with a single click here. There it is. With a click on the star, I can bookmark it.

If you visit spreadfirefox.com, you'll see you have the ability to help us establish a new Guinness World Record. And as you can see, if you zoom on the Europe, you'll see that, well, UK so far has pledged to download 30,000 visit, times the browser, France is at 40,000. You can't let us French... Oh, the French are beating us. Come on, serious with it. Oh, yeah, yeah. And you know what, Poles are even better, they're getting close to 60,000.

The way we make money is that, by default, when you go to the Firefox homepage, you are taken to a website, which in this case is google.com. And we have a partnership with Google, so that if you use it, they make money, and, we'll, we'll get a little tiny share of this money. Same here for the search engines that we offer here, Yahoo and Amazon UK and Google UK also have partnership with us.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. in the making: phase

If you describe a person or thing as something in the making, you mean that they are going to become known or recognized as that thing.

2. bookmark: n-count (also verb)

In computing, a bookmark is the address of an Internet site that you put into a list on your computer so that you can return to it easily.

3. by default: phrase

If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened. (Formal)

文本参考中文翻译

Mozilla推出的Firefox 3浏览器有15，000多项新的特点。Mozilla Europe的创立者和总裁Tristan Nitot做客Sky News工作室，向科技档案节目的Martin Stanford演示一些新的特性。

该浏览器推出已经叱咤市场三年的时间，Firefox 2到Firefox 3有15，000多个地方做了改变，所以，这其实是一个全新的版本。

我们所做的只是，将你的浏览历史储存起来，可以让你通过搜索浏览历史网页来更快地获取信息。现在，你知道，最大的新闻是奥巴马，那么我来搜索奥巴马的相关信息。我输入奥巴马，列表中有很过网页是关于奥巴马的，所以，我有很多关于奥巴马的建议。但是我记得曾经在sky.com上看到过一则新闻，那可以这样操作：在奥巴马之前先输入sky，那么我们会得到一系列网页清单，同时还有一些信息是关于克林顿的。我可以选择，浏览以前曾经看过但是不记得网址的文章，而我并没有做书签。就这样，因为我以前浏览过，现在再度出现。这碰巧是一个比较有意思的网页，那么我可以在这里单击，可以做标签。就这样，点击这个星星就可以将这个网页收藏。

如果你浏览spreadfirefox.com，你会发现自己完全有能力帮助我们创立吉尼斯世界纪录。如果你纵观一下欧洲范围，你可以看到，英国目前为止声称已经有30，000的下载次数，法国是40，000，你不能让我们……法国把我们打败了。加油，一定要认真对待。是的，是的，你知道吗，波兰数字更高，接近60，000。

我们赚钱的方式是，我们不直接参与的，当你浏览Firefox主页的时候，你会被带到另外一个网站，在这个例子中是google.com，我们与Google是合作关系，所以如果你用这个搜索引擎时，他们赚钱，我们可以得到这部分收益的一小部分。我们提供的其他的搜索引擎也是一样，Yahoo，Amazon UK和Google UK也跟我们有合作关系。

单词注解：

1. in the making: phase开始形成，在发展中
2. bookmark:书签
3. by default:不到场，间接地