23-10-2006, 11:38 PM
The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is Gran Paradiso. The precursory releases are currently codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk releases. "Gran Paradiso", like other Firefox development names, is an actual place. "Gran Paradiso" is the name of a national park in Italy. When Firefox 3.0 branches, it will adopt the "Gran Paradiso" codename. The release timeframe for Firefox 3.0 is first quarter 2007.
The largest change for Firefox 3 will be the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine. It will also include several new features and some that were bumped from Firefox 2, such as the overhauled Places system for storing bookmarks and history in an SQL backend. Due to Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows 98 and Windows Me on July 11, 2006, and because Cairo does not support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0, Firefox 3.0 will not run on those operating systems. Unlike previous versions, Firefox 3 on Mac OS X will be written in Cocoa.
The development team is also asking that Firefox users submit feature requests that they wish to be included in Firefox 3.
--As I said in the title of the topic, I would provide a pre-release download link so you can see it in action! Here we go;
FireFox v3.0.a1 Exe (Windows)
FireFox v3.0.a1 Exe (Linux)
FireFox v3.0.a1 Exe (MacOSX)
Please notify me if some of these downloads don't work, as I will try to get the correct one!
The largest change for Firefox 3 will be the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine. It will also include several new features and some that were bumped from Firefox 2, such as the overhauled Places system for storing bookmarks and history in an SQL backend. Due to Microsoft's decision to end support for Windows 98 and Windows Me on July 11, 2006, and because Cairo does not support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0, Firefox 3.0 will not run on those operating systems. Unlike previous versions, Firefox 3 on Mac OS X will be written in Cocoa.
The development team is also asking that Firefox users submit feature requests that they wish to be included in Firefox 3.
--As I said in the title of the topic, I would provide a pre-release download link so you can see it in action! Here we go;
FireFox v3.0.a1 Exe (Windows)
FireFox v3.0.a1 Exe (Linux)
FireFox v3.0.a1 Exe (MacOSX)
Please notify me if some of these downloads don't work, as I will try to get the correct one!
