Firefox 3 Release Candidate (1) Available for Download
Well the wait is almost over, Mozilla have have announced that Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. As usual with release candidates, it is not recommended for normal everyday usage as it STILL has unknown and just fixed BUGS and thus intended only for developers to test it and get community feedback.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate has some major improvements in memory usage, performance and speed, includes new features added (listed below). The goal being testing the core functionality brought on by new features and changes.
New features and changes;
- Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
- Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
- Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatibility and stability.
- Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.
So far I have been giving a test drive on my Windows XP x64 (which has all major browsers installed on it) and have yet to encounter any problems. But I wont be doing any money transactions on it.
If you want to give it a go, download it from here but keep in mind it is NOT the stable version yet and might cause some fatal errors.
