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13-12-2006, 08:33 PM
http://blogs.download.com/Daily-Download/post.php?p=1278&tag=bubble
While most of us are still getting used to the new features of Firefox 2 (http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-10208565.html) like individual close-tab buttons and the (more valuable than I expected) session saver, the developers at Mozilla are already hard at work on the next update for Firefox, expected sometime in late 2007. If you don’t feel like waiting another 10-12 months to give it a look, you can now download an alpha release of Firefox 3 (http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-10515987.html), code-named Gran Paradiso. (In case you’re curious, Gran Paradiso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Paradiso) is a mountain range in the Grarian Alps. Firefox 2’s code name was Bon Echo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_echo).)
The biggest changes, at least for the Windows version, will be the new Gecko 1.9 layout engine and the use of Cairo (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Cairo) as the default graphics library. For more about the first alpha release of Firefox 3, read the CNET editor’s take (http://reviews.cnet.com/Firefox_3_Gran_Paradiso_Alpha_1/4505-9241_7-32179647.html) from Robert Vamosi.
While most of us are still getting used to the new features of Firefox 2 (http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-10208565.html) like individual close-tab buttons and the (more valuable than I expected) session saver, the developers at Mozilla are already hard at work on the next update for Firefox, expected sometime in late 2007. If you don’t feel like waiting another 10-12 months to give it a look, you can now download an alpha release of Firefox 3 (http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356_4-10515987.html), code-named Gran Paradiso. (In case you’re curious, Gran Paradiso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Paradiso) is a mountain range in the Grarian Alps. Firefox 2’s code name was Bon Echo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_echo).)
The biggest changes, at least for the Windows version, will be the new Gecko 1.9 layout engine and the use of Cairo (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Cairo) as the default graphics library. For more about the first alpha release of Firefox 3, read the CNET editor’s take (http://reviews.cnet.com/Firefox_3_Gran_Paradiso_Alpha_1/4505-9241_7-32179647.html) from Robert Vamosi.