Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1

[KilJaden]

Mozilla Firefox - faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

Mozilla Firefox 3 is focused on improved memory handling, performance, and stability, improved XUL, and new core components such as application data stored in SQLite. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. This new platform includes more than 15,000 changes to improve performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 is been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

Firefox 3.1: Support for text attributes and spell checking

Marco Zehe writes, “Friday’s nightly build will include one big new feature in accessibility for Firefox 3.1: Text attributes and spell checking support.” This means that assistive technologies will now be able to get information about the font-family, font-weight, underline style, style, color, and background color of text, and also the language that the text is in, among other things. Additionally, when editing, if a word is misspelled, that word will now include an “invalid:misspelling” attribute. These new features will be fine-tuned over the next few weeks, but the team is looking for feedback if you’re able to help. For more details, please see Marco’s weblog post.

Homepage

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Download Firefox 3.1 Alpha for Windows - 7.02 MB

http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.1a1/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.1a1.exe

Download Firefox 3.1 Alpha for Linux - 8.61 MB

http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.1a1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.1a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

Download Firefox 3.1 Alpha for MacOS - 15.7 MB

http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.1a1/mac/en-US/Firefox%203.1a1.dmg

[Marik]

it's a nightly....sry but i will post it once it gets out of the nightly category

[Lite]

Naa this IS a release... only not "annouced" :D

[Marik]

oh look a pickle!!!!!

*Lite runs after the pickle*

haha, i'm all alone!!!!