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Firefox 3.1 News and Dates

Posted: July 22, 2008 | Filed Under News

Firefox 3 has been launched with great success, so now it is time to start looking at Firefox 3.1.  Right now it appears Firefox 3.1 Alpha should be released July 25th with a beta coming as soon as early August.  It doesn’t look like Firefox 3.1 will just be fixes though, there are a lot of new features coming our way too…

Here are a few of them that are targeted for Alpha 1:

  • worker threads (under review)
  • offline storage / local storage (under review)
  • downloadable fonts (kinda maybe)
  • native JSON (under review)
  • WHATWG <canvas> text API
  • Awesomebar improvements (need review gavin, shepherding)
  • border image (under review)
  • media queries (under review)
  • bulk tagging
  • ctrl-tab

Will Firefox 3.1 create as much excitement around the world as Firefox 3 did?

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  • It is clear from the version number that Firefox 3.1 will add new features. Mozilla follows the loose common unix versioning scheme, in which version X.Y.Z is broken down like this:
    X: Major UI or backend changes that break backward compatibility, including new features and bugfixes.
    Y: New features and bugfixes.
    Z: Bugfixes.

    That's why the Firefox 2 branch went from 2.0.0 to 2.0.15: There were only bugfixes, no new features.
  • As long as they fix the backwards/fowards buttons issue in OS X I'll be happy.
  • this round is more to technical updates, to the end users could be less wow that it might seems to have.
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