Mozilla Releases Firefox 3

[mandy]

Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla's layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha 1.

Changes in this Development Milestone

Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 introduces several new features which can be tested by using Gran Paradiso Alpha 1:

    * Cairo is now being used as the default graphics library, affecting all graphic and text rendering
    * Cocoa Widgets are now used in OS X builds
    * An updated threading model
    * Changes to how DOM events are dispatched (see bug 234455)
    * Changes to how

[jezebel]

No thanks.

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=6314.msg36806#msg36806 date=1166116120]
No thanks.
[/quote]

For real.

[rose]

I installed the Linux version.  I'd advise business and home users to wait until the beta. 

[mandy]

Firefox 3.0 Alpha 3 released:

This past Monday, Mozilla unveiled the third alpha of Gran Paradiso, the code name for Firefox 3.0. If development goes according to plan, this will be the first version of Firefox—or of any browser, for that matter—to have the three key components needed to support offline Web applications: DOM Storage; an offline execution model; and synchronization. That critical foundation will let free or low-cost Web suites compete with Microsoft software and possibly break the company's decades-long domination in office productivity apps...

full article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C1895%2...1%2C00.asp

[mandy]

Firefox 3 Beta 1 Released:

Download:
normal people  : http://www.mozilla.com/products/download...efox-3.0b1&os=linux&lang=en-US
Windows users: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download...efox-3.0b1&os=win&lang=en-US
Mac users: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download...efox-3.0b1&os=osx&lang=en-US

Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of significant features that Mozilla said should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages, and location of previously visited Web pages. And for the new era of rich Internet applications, the browser can run Web-based applications even when the computer is disconnected from a network.

The software is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux at Mozilla's download site in 20 different languages.

full article: http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9820775-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

[jezebel]

Still no thanks. 

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=6314.msg66559#msg66559 date=1195575421]
Still no thanks. 
[/quote]

Absolutely, NO THANKS, after my experience with FF2 beta.    It is finally working fairly well (no more FF crashes), and I am NEVER going to do that again!

Download:
normal people icon_biggrin : http://www.mozilla.com/pr...p;os=linux&lang=en-US
Windows users: http://www.mozilla.com/pr...amp;os=win&lang=en-US
Mac users: http://www.mozilla.com/pr...amp;os=osx&lang=en-US

 

[regic]

Plus: the 3.0 beta 1 is more stable than the 2.0 beta 1
Minus: no plug-ins yet and it crashes a few times per day

[Kristijntje]

A comparison of Firefox 2 and 3 memory usage
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=960