Mar 14, 2009
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Mozilla’s Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

Great news to all Firefox users! Mozilla has just announced the released of their latest browser – Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 which is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform and has actually been under development for the past 9 months. Mozilla reported in their Release Notes that Firefox 3.1 is an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use.

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Some of the noticeable changes/improvements are:

  • This beta is now available in 64 languages
  • Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
  • Improvements to web worker thread support.
  • Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
  • New native JSON support.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • 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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As of all beta versions, the new Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is “considered” to be stable until more feedbacks and evaluation comments are gathered from developers and testing community. Words of caution though, do not expect all of their add-ons to work properly with this beta.

Here is a list of reported bugs so far.

  • Dragging a tab onto the desktop doesn’t create a new window
  • Occasionally Google Mail will fail to respond when creating a new filter, showing advanced search options, or clearing the spam folder. Reloading Google Mail fixes the issue
  • When returning from Private Browsing Mode, some sites served over SSL will not load properly
  • Some users with older computers or slower Internet connections may experience choppy OGG video/audio playback
  • Users who run this beta, then downgrade to a previous Firefox 3.1 Alpha or Beta, will be unable to use stored passwords
  • If you are using MS Natural Input 2002 v8.1, IME will automatically activate when certain text fields are focused.

Update: Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

Updated: Mozilla Firefox 35 Final Free Download

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