Firefox 3 Beta 1 is really here!

After months of pre-release testing, Firefox 3 has finally crawled into beta, which means developers and testers can start playing with Firefox 3 and help Mozilla in weeding out bugs from the final release, which is probably one or two months away. Don’t expect to see the unexpected in Firefox 3. Just few bug squashing and security improvements:

  • Updated Gecko rendering engines, which makes the browser a bit more stable.
  • Improved form of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.
  • New Places feature, which makes it easier to find the most frequently visited, recently visited and starred sites.

Although most reviews are positive, Duncan Riley wrote an interesting negative review on TechCrunch about the memory usage of Firefox. I have to admit, that the memory usage of Firefox 3 Beta 1 is pretty much the same as Firefox 2. I guess Mozilla’s plan on prioritizing over memory usage issue was plain talking and nothing else. Why jump to the conclusion, let’s wait for final version to talk about memory usage.

[Via: Mozilla Developer Center]

This post was published by on November 20, 2007

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  • http://www.selbourne.com Selbourne Designing

    I am sure that there would be some more features built into this version. There is always something new coming from the firefox stable.

  • http://www.smackall.com Harishankar

    May be we should wait for final release. I tested the beta and was bit painful without the addons not supported. Even Google toolbar was not supported.

  • http://www.smackall.com Harishankar

    anyway we should thank them that the software doesnt get upgraded over 2.0.0.9 but just installs an other copy, so that we still can easily uninstall it anytime.

  • http://www.proxynetwork.i.ph Myspace Vtunnel Proxy

    everytime firefox really improves themselves.. that is why i really sugest firefox instead of internet explorer too bad there are only 15% who uses firefox and the other is from internet explorer..

    i hope firefox will beat Internet Explorer on popularity cause Firefox already beaten Internet Explorer regards in performance