Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download, Melissa Shapiro reports via The Mozilla Blog.
Please note: Mozilla does not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
• Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.
• Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X.
• Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typing in location bar searches your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
• Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.
• Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 300 memory leak fixes, and a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks.
Testers can download Firefox 3 Beta 1 builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 20 different languages.
Firefox now uses the OS X spellchecker and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. HTML forms on Web pages now have a native look and feel on Mac OS X.
More info and download links here.
Yeah… but is it still butt-ugly, or have they got the Mac widgets implemented yet?
well, hopefully they sped the thing up… Slowest.Browser.Ever
Hey you two up there, “Beta Version”.
Willie G: “well, hopefully they sped the thing up… Slowest.Browser.Ever”
I’m not sure about that; I use Opera almost exclusively and it’s pretty damn slow too.
Not to be confused with Shin Hayata’s Beta Capsule that transforms him into Ultraman to save the day.
Hey Mr Hinky Dink….
I’m not talking about the Beta being slow… I am talking about the current iteration of Firefox, and expressing my hope that the new version prefaced by this beta is faster.
Now, go take some reading comprehension classes.
Ok, based on this release it is still fugly.
ARRRRGH!!!
I registered as a user but didn’t see the box “Notify me of follow-up comments?”
My mailbox!!!!
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Incoming mails are coming in so fast it sounds like an alarm bell ringing
I have to say that from 2.0, 3.0 beta is looking good finally. They have done much better on integrating with OS X and away from the dull PC look, and it is quite fast. I have always liked there off shoot of Camino, but I have preferred Firefox. Cant wait to load this on my work computer….
I don’t need it. I don’t want it.
Faster, native widgets (native looking at least, although since they use OS X’s spellchecker I assume it’s fully native). Lots to like
No worries Willie. What’s comprehension mean?
” full page zoom”
I hope Apple takes their cue from Firefox and IE (I know, I know, heresy) and adds this feature into Safari too. It seems like a good idea, and there’s times where it would be really useful.
it definately feels alot faster than safari. the interface is the old one, the new one will be customized for the mac os. (previsouly they have tried to keep things similar across platforms but are changing their directions) which i think is a good idea.
safari often hangs when you first click on a link, if you click the link again it will often load straight away, I would like it to be more agressive in pulling the webpage. ive found this on my macbook and macs in store, its the most annoying thing about safari.
Screw Firefox 3. We obviously need to party with someone named Sixvodkas.