October 16th, 2008 by Keith
Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 1
Posted in Beta, Linux, Mac OS, Site News, Software Companies, Solaris, Web Apps, Windows
For Firefox fans, this is good news! The next version of Firefox 3.1 is now out; just to make things clear, it is the beta version per se, that is released.
With this long awaiting browser wars between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, this will allow users (perhaps testers and developers) to verify the real speed performance across all the web browsers. Behold Google Chrome’s V8 engine against TraceMonkey to compete for Javascript performance.
What’s new in this version?
- * 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.
- * Want to quickly switch between tabs? Press Ctrl-Tab to jump back and forth!
- * Control the Smart Location Bar results with special characters.
- * Watch Ogg video without the need for any plugins.
- * Drag and drop tabs from one Firefox window to another.
Strongly encourage all to give this Mozilla Firefox 3.1 (beta 1) version a try. So far, my experience with it seems very positive. Of course, you may have to be a little lenient on this application as it’s still in beta stage. Kindly note that, as this is still not official, perhaps it is advised not to deploy it on production machines.
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