Time To Test Firefox 3.1 Beta 1

Practically four months to the (D-) day that <a href="http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/dday_for_firefo.html">Firefox 3</a> debuted, Mozilla has released the beta of its browser's successor.

Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

October 15, 2008

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Practically four months to the (D-) day that Firefox 3 debuted, Mozilla has released the beta of its browser's successor.According to Mozilla's release notes, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1's new features include:

  • 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 youre switching to. Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search. Support for new Web technologies, such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, Web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Not among those bullets, however, is TraceMonkey, a component announced late August with the promise to significantly speed up the browser's JavaScript performance. Turns out, the component is in the browser, it's just not turned on by default. (No word why.) The folks at CNET gave that a whirl and found: "Using the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test, Firefox 3.1 beta 1 completed the test in 2,787.6 milliseconds -- about twice as fast as the current stable release, Firefox 3.0.3, which clocked in at 5,446.6 ms." Before any of this, of course, you have to download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1, available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems. Of note, be sure to read over a half-dozen known issues.

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Jim Manico

Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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