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This week's Screencast of the Week comes from Mike Beltzner, the User Experience Lead at Mozilla. You know, Mozilla. The people that make the Web browser called Firefox! Mike made a great Jing screencast showing off the upcoming release of Firefox 3. You can click the screenshot below to watch the video. It runs less than 4 minutes.

I asked Mike more about his screencast. He mentioned that he made the screencast to help people see the new features of Firefox 3 in action.

Mike said, "Software is all about interactions with the user, and it can be hard to convey the same feeling and experience with screenshots and text alone. Jing made it really easy to do - I just picked my window, pressed a button, did my think, and then had a video that I could share with anyone. I used the built in microphone in my laptop (that's why you can hear me typing and clicking) and didn't really script anything; if I made a mistake, I could click "Restart" and start again. It took me about 20 "takes" to get it right."

You can see Mike's blog post about the Jing video here.

I'm glad Mike made a screencast about what's coming in Firefox 3! Now I'm really excited and ready to download when it's released!

Any nominations for next week's Screencast of the Week?