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Mozilla Closing in on Firefox 3 |
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Beyond fixes and changes to Gecko, Firefox 3 Alpha 6 fixes a few other key features that the Firefox 3 development has previously introduced. Among them is an upgrade to the SQLite storage engine, which is the backbone for the new bookmarking and history feature called Places. Places itself also benefits from various fixes according to the nebulous release notes.
The Places bookmarking system landed in Firefox 3 as part of the Alpha 5 release, which came out less than a month ago.
On the stability side, Alpha six has now added a new Quit dialog box that is expected to resolve termination errors without simply triggering a browser crash and/or restart.
Mozilla has been actively pursuing the development of Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) since October of 2006 when the first Firefox 3 alpha appeared.
The next milestone release on the path toward Firefox 3 is the Beta 1 release, which is set for July 31. Beta 2 is currently set for September 11th, with a third and final Beta scheduled for October of 2007.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 July 2007 )
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