Mozilla has recently launched Firefox 8 Beta 5, the latest version of Firefox beta is now currently available for testing on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The latest version adds following features: Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default; Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons; Added Twitter to the search bar; Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored; Improved tab animations when moving, reordering, or detaching tabs; Improved performance and memory handling when using and elements; Added CORS support for cross-domain textures in WebGL; Added support for HTML5 context menus; Added support for insertAdjacentHTML; Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages; Improved WebSocket support and Fixed several stability issues.

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Mozilla has recently launched Firefox 8 Beta 2, the latest version of Firefox beta is now currently available for testing on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The latest version adds following features:

Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
Added Twitter to the search bar
Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored

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Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 beta 1 on Tuesday. This version is the third development milestone and first beta release of Firefox 3.1, the upcoming version of this popular open source web browser. It is intended for web developers and members of testing community for early evaluation and feedback.

The beta version includes Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which boosts rendering speeds up to 40 times over those of Firefox 3.0 and makes it faster than Google Chrome's V8 engine, but Mozilla did not enable its new engine in beta 1. It's still switched off by default. However, you can enable TraceMonkey by yourselves with typing "about:config" in the address bar, entering "javascript.options.jit.content" in the filter field, and then setting it to "True" by double-clicking the item. Firefox 3.1 must be restarted for the change to take effect. Read the rest of this entry »