Friday, October 17, 2008

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 - More Secure and Stable Web Browser

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 (Windows, Open Source, 7.4MB) [alt DL] is the award-winning Web browser that is better than ever.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

  • based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 6 months
  • Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
  • Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
  • A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you're switching to
  • Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
  • Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

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