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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
16 years ago2,475 views

<< Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

   * Improvements to the user interface: better search support in the Download Manager, ability to zoom entire page or just the text, continuing look and feel improvements on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
   * Richer personalization through: location bar that uses an algorithm based on site visit recency and frequency (called “frecency”) to provide better matches against your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, as well as an adaptive learning algorithm which tunes itself to your browsing habits.
   * Improved platform features such as: support for HTML5’s window.postMessage and window.messageEvent, JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and offline data storage for web applications.
   * Performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long web browsing sessions. >>

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/03/10/firefox-3-beta-4-out/

Download link:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

New blue buttons instead of green (linin') in vista version (not likin')

Glad to be able to SEE the changes, makes me feel like somethings ging on

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