Internet giant Mozilla officially released on Thursday its third beta (test) version of its popular web browser Firefox. While the release has been delayed from the initial plan because of bugs found in the company’s JavaScript engine, officials said the new Firefox will now be accessible to web users.
In its official a blog post, Mozilla said its Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is now available to the public who can send their feedback to the company to make some improvements just in case.
According to the Internet giant, the new version of Firefox made some drastic improvements on its Private Browsing mode. On the history sidebar, users can click the “forget this site” function to remove the content’s address.
The company’s JavaScript engine TraceMonkey has also been improved to provide stability and fast performance that will prevent any form of bug attacks.
Other new improvements of the Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 are: SVG transforms, added offline applications, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, new native JSON parsing support that will protect Firefox against code execution, newly enhanced to Gecko layout engine, and added support for audio and video features including W3C Geolocation API.
Meanwhile, Mozilla said it will release its fourth version of the beta browser in April 14, adding that Firefox 3.1 will be then renamed as Firefox 3.5. According to the Internet giant, the name change is necessary since it will be a reflection of how much improvement the original browser has undergone.
In his blog post, Mozilla Firefox director Mike Beltzer said the “increase in version number is because of the incremental improvement over Firefox 3”, adding that “bugs will be filtered so the system will experience minimal disruption.”
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