Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0rc1 preview for testing
updated 04:25 pm EDT, Sat May 17, 2008
Firefox 3.0rc1 preview
Mozilla has released a preview release of Firefox 3 Release Candidate, the next generation Firefox browser. Designed for "testing purposes only," the company emphasizes that preview releases are published to collect feedback from Web developers and our testing community before advancing to the next stage in the release process. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which offers improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Version 3 offers one-click site info, malware protection, a new Web Forgery Protection page, new SSL error pages, anti-virus integration, easier password management, simplified add-on installation, a new Download Manager, resumable downloading, and a new Firefox theme for Mac OS X along with Growl for notifications.
Version 3.0 also brings improvements to the JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations. The developers say that compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
It also has improved memory allocation and usage and a new database that securely records user bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences to prevent data loss in cases of system crashes.
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Can't do it
Seriously, I just can't use Firefox until they do something about "full screen" taking up ALL of my screen. Maybe it's because I'm not a windows drone and I prefer to actually multi-task instead of pretending to, but I like how safari opens up just enough to show the whole page, leaving view of everything else on my desktop or other windows or whatever, so I can, say, read & type without having to switch back & forth.
Who the f*** decided that opening up and claiming the whole screen was a good idea? How retarded.