Alright, many of us have been waiting for Mozilla to get Places into the Firefox Alpha releases and it has finally happened. Alpha 5 comes to us one-week late, but marks the beginning of Places which could end up being a beautiful thing.
The release of Firefox 3 is expected to be later this year, and with it will come new features and possibly even a new look. The user interface just got revamped last fall for the release of Firefox 2, so are Firefox users ready for another change?
There has been some good news lately on the progress of Firefox 3. Mozilla was able to get the backend of Places back into the latest nightly releases, but as of right now you won’t notice many differences.
Mozilla just posted Firefox 3 Alpha 4 (code name Gran Paradiso) for everyone to download. Before you go jumping around with excitement, I’ll be the first to say that this release doesn’t have anything that great in it:
The latest nightly releases of Firefox 3 have a new feature in them that allow you to select items on a site that are not all adjacent to each other. This is often called discontinuous selections, and the result is something similar to the screenshot that I posted to the right.
It’s here! People were wondering where Mozilla’s next milestone was for Firefox 3 and it has finally come. This release, like other Alphas, are geared towards developers and don’t really include much that casual users would find exciting. Here’s what’s new according to the release notes:
For the last few weeks I’ve made Firefox 3 nightly releases my primary browser because my extensions all work well with it.
Mozilla has just released the English version of Firefox 3 Alpha 2 (codename Gran Paradiso) and it is the first release of Firefox that passes the Acid 2 test. Well, it is still a pre-release version but it is on its way to be the final version that will be released later this year.
Google has finally brought the Google Toolbar 3 out of Beta for all Firefox users. Yes, you heard me right...Google took a product out of Beta! I guess they do periodically remove services from the Beta stage, but it a rare occasion. I feel like I should bust out the champagne to celebrate.
The day for the first milestone of Firefox 3 has already arrived! That's right, Firefox 3 Alpha 1 can be downloaded off of the FTP server but at this time they only have the English version posted. I expect that other languages will be following very shortly so this will be the downloader for those versions, but as of right now only the English-US version is available:
