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A first look at Firefox 3.0


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#1 OFFLINE   Humpty

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Posted 13 December 2006 - 01:37 AM

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Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0. Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which leverages the open source Cairo rendering framework and features heavily refactored reflow algorithms that improve Firefox layout functionality and resolve some long-standing CSS bugs.

The reflow improvements in Gecko 1.9 (included in the latest Gran Paradiso nightly build, but not the alpha release) finally enable Firefox to pass the Acid 2 test, a CSS test case developed by the Web Standards Project to illuminate flaws in HTML/CSS rendering engines. To pass the Acid 2 test, browsers must comply with W3C standards and provide support for a wide variety of features that are considered relevant by web designers. The Acid 2 test has been passed by several other browsers, including Safari, Konqueror, and Opera, but not Internet Explorer. Passing Acid 2 is considered to be a significant milestone in Firefox development.

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#2 OFFLINE   JDPower

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Posted 13 December 2006 - 11:08 PM

View PostHumpty, on Dec 13 2006, 01:37 AM, said:

Link isn't working for me: "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)"

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 05:04 AM

View PostJDPower, on Dec 13 2006, 11:08 PM, said:

Link isn't working for me: "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)"

try it yourself anyway
http://www.filecluster.com/download-softwa...ozilla-firefox/
have fun ;)

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 05:31 AM

View PostJDPower, on Dec 13 2006, 11:08 PM, said:

Link isn't working for me: "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)"
Working now :rolleyes: