The ninth developer milestone for the popular web browser Firefox has ben released.
Except for the minor css rendering issues, it looks pretty stable; installed on my xp sp2.
The new beta features slicker interface, easier use, more personal and improved performance. The list of main features and changes include:
- Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.
- Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X.
- Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typing in location bar searches your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
- Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.
- Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 300 memory leak fixes, and a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks.
I suppose the upcoming final release for Firefox will heaten up the browser wars in a good way.
Lets hope it is less buggy on Intel Mac!
But plugins not compatible yet with beta version, I am still using both version of Firefox and I think this is a migration call from IE to FF ;)
And your new theme very cool Onur. I like it. :)