Quick Tweaks » browser http://www.quicktweaks.com Quick Tweaks For Your System Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:29:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 Beta1. Try it now! http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/10/14/mozilla-released-firefox-31-beta1-try-it-now/ http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/10/14/mozilla-released-firefox-31-beta1-try-it-now/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:52:12 +0000 ashokgelal http://www.quicktweaks.com/?p=190 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Mozilla just released Beta1 of Firefox 3.1 browser. They haven’t yet made the official announcement though.

The noticeable features include Ctrl+Tab 3D navigation browser, faster JavaScript performance, and Open a New Tab button just like Internet Explorer 7.

Ctrl+Tab 3D navigation browser is a welcome feature

Ctrl+Tab 3D navigation browser is a welcome feature

If you want to give a try, here is how to install it in Linux:

wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.1b1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.1b1.tar.bz2Update: From the official What’s New page:

  • Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
  • Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
  • A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
  • Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

    • Don’t forget to backup your profile so that you can restore if something goes wrong.

    Open a new tab button

    Open a new tab button

    $ tar -xvf firefox-3.1b1.tar.bz2

    $ cd firefox

    $ ./firefox

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