Mozilla has released the second beta of Firefox 3.1, for its developers and testing community.
So what’s new in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2? Additional features mentioned in the release notes are:
- This beta is now available in 54 languages.
- Added a new Private Browsing Mode.
- Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
- New support for web worker threads.
- The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for web content.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
- Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.
Unlike Chrome,the Firefox beta version is released for all platforms, Windows, Mac and Linux.
If you are eager to try/test before it’s final release, download the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Before going ahead with the download/install, do read the Known Issues associated with this Beta release.
