Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 now available

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Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 now available

by Chris Brentano Dec 8th 2006

Hot on the heels of 2.0, the Firefox team have posted the first Alpha release of Firefox 3.0, "Gran Paradiso". Some of the new features include the use of Cairo as the graphics library, Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS X, and improved SVG specification compliance. Builds are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Before reporting any bugs, make sure to check the Known Issues list, and happy testing!

[Via TG Daily]

Update: As Stuart Parmenter points out in the comments, this is not Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1, but a build of Gran Paradiso using Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 - the rendering engine behind Firefox. My apologies!

Tags: alpha, cairo, cocoa, firefox, gran paradiso, svg

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brandon said 7:41PM on 12-08-2006

I wanna do it, but I wanna has two separate instances of firefox, one 2.0, and 3.0a1 that don't interfere with each other.

nizzy1115 said 7:59PM on 12-08-2006

You will have 2 separate installs...Firefox always does this with there betas/alphas. I did install it on my machine, so i can verify it as well. Personally, i didn't see much of a difference between it and 2.0, but maybe I'm missing something.

emmzee said 8:19PM on 12-08-2006

This seems kinda cheesy to me ... from the "new features" listed this sounds more like 2.1 or something. Think they're just trying to one-up IE? Lame. (I make this observation as a Firefox fan who's using 2.0 right now btw)

Stuart Parmenter said 8:28PM on 12-08-2006

this is _not_ a Firefox 3 alpha. This is a "gecko 1.9" alpha (Firefox's backend). The UI and frontend is almost identical to that of Firefox 2, but there are _massive_ changes to the backend.

Chris Brentano said 9:44PM on 12-08-2006

Thanks for the clarification Stuart, I've updated the post. Sorry!

Stuart Parmenter said 9:18AM on 12-09-2006

No problem! We certainly want people to test these builds -- we've made huge amounts of backend changes including new font rendering on all platform, new graphics backend on all platforms, many many many layout changes.

Hasan said 9:07AM on 12-11-2006

Brandon, instructions for running 2 and 3 at the same time without interference are here...

http://the-edmeister.home.comcast.net/advice-html/simul-profiles_batch-file.html

nizzy, the big difference is the Cairo rendering engine, replacing Gecko. It renders web pages noticeably faster and supports SVG graphics...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28graphics%29

Hitesh said 3:22PM on 2-24-2007

I have Redhat 9. I tried installing gran-paradiso(firefox 3) but got the following errors.

#tar -xvf granparadiso-alpha1.tar.bz2

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Can anyone please help.

Chris Brentano said 3:23PM on 2-24-2007

Hey Hitesh,

Add a 'j' to that, i.e.

tar -xvfj granparadiso-alpha1.tar.bz2

That will run it through bunzip2 first, then untar it. Hope that helps!

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