JakeCop's Blog

After over two years of development and over one million lines of changed code, Firefox 3 Beta 1 has finally been released.
Firefox 3 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform, which includes some major improvements in performance, stability, accuracy, and code simplification. The file download has also been improved allowing for pause and resume and it makes it easier to find files.
Some other good features I’ve came accross after testing Firefox 3 for an hour or so:

Clicking on the site favicon displays information about who owns the site that you’re visiting.
Better malware warnings for sites which are known to install viruses, spyware or trojans. And for pages suspected as web forgeries.

The zoom has also been i...