Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 For Developers and Testers
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Mozilla developer centre released its Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 today. Codenamed as Shiretoko Alpha 2, developers or testers who would like to give it a try can download it.
This Alpha 2 release it built on the pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform and it introduces a few interesting new features such as:
Support for the HTML 5 element
Initial support for web worker threads
You can now drag and drop tabs between browser windows
New selector to create areas of Aero-style glass in XUL
Support for CSS 2.1 properties: ::before and ::after, and white-space:pre-line
Support for CSS 3 properties: -moz-border-image, word-wrap: break-word, text-shadow, box-shadow and column-rule
Performance improvements and new preference values for color management profile support
Users can download Firefox 3.1 Shiretoko Alpha 2 via the following links:
Windows: Shiretoko Alpha 2 Setup.exe
Mac OS X: Shiretoko Alpha 2.dmg
Linux: shiretoko-alpha2.tar.bz2
