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[Nvyseal]

Firefox is a fast-moving application, and now you can take a quick gander at the first Alpha version of Firefox 3.0, the next iteration of the open-source browser for Windows, Mac and Linux nicknamed Gran Paradiso. On the surface, it doesn't look that different from the current version of Firefox (which we find to be unacceptably unstable, by the way).

Its innovations are under the hood, where it enhances compatibility with three tricked-out graphics standards that might soon be ubiquitous on the Web: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), the Canvas specification, and the cairo graphics library. Sounds great, but what does all this stuff do? They all have to do with making Web pages look the same on any platform, and scaling up graphics without loss of quality.

Download all flavors HERE

[Roadrunner]

Thanks Dave-
I've used Firefox for years- it continues to stay ahead of IE!

[brewin]

I was kind of disappointed with 2.0. It uses a lot more memory than 1.5 did. It's using just under 50MB right now. Hopefully 3.0 will be better.

[Christopholofigus]

Thanks for the linky. I will down it now, is it more stable than 2.0? Didn't quite understand that comment.

Also, i have to agree with the memory usage...but then again i run mulitple tabs ALL the time and use session manager to keep everything the same when i close the program and then come back to it.



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Ok, what one do i want?

Edited by Christopholofigus, 12 December 2006 - 09:54 AM.

[m.oreilly]

seems to load up slower, little over 35 megs usage atm...i'll play with it for a bit

[Tweak]

Someday you will all learn that Opera has offered as much and more than FF long before, now FF is playing catchup to Opera and IE is finally catching up to FF, still about worthless but at least the MS boys keep trying.