Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Firefox 3 Beta 5

Mozilla announced that they finished releasing Firefox 3 Beta 5 today.

This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.

New features added to this version:

  • Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
  • Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
  • Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatabilty and stability.
  • Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.


Read more on The Mozilla Blog.
See also What's New in Firefox 3.
Download Firefox 3 Beta 5.

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