Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1
Mozilla Corporation today released Firefox 3 Beta 1, which is now available for download in a variety of languages. The beta includes updates to the default theme, the new places site management features, improved security architecture, and Gecko 1.9.
What is Firefox 3.0 Beta 1?
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 beta 1, the award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence. Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.
Mozilla Firefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer. Choose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.
These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and our testing community to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process. The final version of Firefox 3 will be released when we qualify the product as fully ready for our users. Users of the latest released version of Firefox should not expect their add-ons to work properly with this beta.
Much of the work leading up to this first beta has been around developing the infrastructure to support a bunch of exciting new features. With this first beta, you'll get a taste of what's coming in Firefox 3, but there's still more to come, and much of what you'll see is still a bit rough around the edges.
What's New in Firefox 3 Beta 1?
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues. Gecko 1.9 includes some major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 has license: Freeware
File Size: 6.4 MB
Freeware Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 Requirements:
- Windows All/98/98SE/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
*Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.