Firefox 3.1b1/Shiretoko Released

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Firefox 3.1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine.

Firefox 3.1b1 New Features:

  • 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.

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Download Shiretoko:

  • Windows: Shiretoko Beta 1 Setup.exe
  • Mac OS X: Shiretoko Beta 1.dmg
  • Linux: shiretoko-beta1.tar.bz2