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Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released
By: Nicholas Kolakowski
2009-03-13
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Mozilla has released its Firefox 3.1 beta 3 Web browser, intended for developers and testers for evaluation and feedback. The open-source Firefox browser, which holds a competitive position over Apple Safari and Google Chrome but still trails the all-powerful Microsoft Internet Explorer, claims this version features a number of improvements, including increased support for new Web technologies, and is stable.Mozilla is rolling out the 3.1 beta of its popular
Firefox Web browser March 12. The new version of the open-source browser is intended for
developers and testers for evaluation and feedback, but Firefox nonetheless
claims that the beta release is stable.
While Microsoft Internet Explorer has a double-digit lead over Firefox with regard to market
share, Firefox has still managed to dominate Apple Safari and Google Chrome in terms of percentage of users.
Based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, Beta 3 boasts
improvements to Web worker thread support, increased stability with the
TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, native JSON support, and support for
<video> and <audio> elements, W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query
selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, and SVG transforms.
Firefox has also improved its Private Browsing Mode, a
feature designed for Firefox 3.1 beta and later. Once Private Browsing is turned
on, Firefox no longer retains data such as visited pages, cookies, Web cache
files, download list entries, or Form or Search Bar entries.
The Beta can be downloaded from this site.
Beta 4 is currently scheduled to roll out in mid-April, to be
followed by a release candidate, and then the final release of what will be
called Firefox 3.5.
First released in 2004, Firefox is currently the second-most
popular Web browser in terms of market share.
Although it lags behind Microsofts Internet Explorer in
terms of number of users, Firefox also holds a relatively dominant position,
with regard to market share, over Apples Safari and Google
Chrome.
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