Friday, December 12, 2008

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 (Windows, Open Source, 7.4MB) [alt DL] is the award-winning Web browser that lets you browse the Web with confidence, and protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

  • now available in 54 languages - get your local version.
  • Added a new Private Browsing Mode.
  • Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
  • New support for web worker threads.
  • The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for web content.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
  • Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

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