Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

[george]

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 was released

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

- This beta is now available in 54 languages - get your local version and let us know if it looks right.

- A new Private Browsing Mode that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been - perfect for online holiday shopping!

- New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.

- New support for web worker threads.

- The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.

- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

- Removed the new tab-switching & preview behavior based on feedback from Beta 1 users

- 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.

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index...e-for-download/ :

[Gary A]

Downloaded and installed with no problems. It appears that add ons do not work yet. Firefox must have felt they needed a faster browser to compete with the rest. I'll give it a fair try.

[PC800]

George,

Will this new FireFox allow us Mac users to once again view ThaiVisa? Remember your project to UPGRADE the system? It kept Mac users from using their preferred browser. I have not heard from you in a very long time. Your UPGRADE certainly was not one for me. I currently have to switch to Safari to view ThaiVisa. I still do it because I like the site, but it's a bit of a pain.

[zzdocxx]

What's Gecko, and Trace Monkey? I don't know anything about those.

OK I confess I am still on FF2, I always like the bugs to be ironed out first, I have really held out on this one.

Even though "New Tab Homepage" add-on no longer works on FF2.

OK anyway it sounds like things are shaping up.

Thank goodness for being able to do holiday shopping in private mode, I have been worrying about that all year!

Thanks for the update!

[JetsetBkk]

I'm using FF 2.0.0.18 as some (20+) of my extensions still aren't compatible with FF v 3+.

Edited December 11, 2008 by JetsetBkk