Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 released

[Modelworks]

The beta for the major update of firefox is released. They said the changes are so major that they are going to rename it 3.5 to show the significance of the changes.

You can get it here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pu...ses/3.1b3/win32/en-US/

Edit: direct link till they correct the beta page

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 9 months. Firefox 3.1 is an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:

* This beta is now available in 64 languages - get your local version.
* 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 <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b2/firstrun/

* Use the new Private Browsing Mode and the updated Clear Recent History function (in the Tools menu) to keep your browsing habits a secret.
* Tear tabs off the tab bar to create new windows, and drag and drop them from one Firefox window to another.
* Watch a video in your browser without needing any plugins or external media players.
* Control the Smart Location Bar results with special characters.
* Find out about the new features that you can take advantage of when building your websites.
* Test your site with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine to see how much faster it runs.
* Try out the support for the new video and audio elements.
* Take advantage of new features like native JSON and web worker threads.
* Find out about new features that you can use to build better add-ons.
* Test your existing add-ons to ensure that they're compatible with the latest version of Firefox.

 

[Hyperlite]

Shweet. I've been waiting for this, i was getting close to rolling back from beta 2 because i don't find it to be very stable.


EDIT: they seem to be in the process. half of the download page is still referring to beta2, and it looks like the download links are still for beta 2.

OP, do you have a direct link for the b3 download?

 

[LuDaCriS66]

here's the link off mozilla's FTP
http://releases.mozilla.org/pu...ses/3.1b3/win32/en-US/

looks like it was uploaded on the 6th



also looks like the server's getting hit hard. I'm only getting 8 KB/s here

 

[Hyperlite]

thanks for the link and the warning