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Firefox 3 Alpha 5 released
Gran Paradiso doesn't actually uninstall Firefox 2.0 though, so you can install Gran Paradiso and uninstall it with minimal risk. Except there's a chance you might lose some bookmarks. That's because the biggest change in the latest build is that Mozilla has added "Places," a new way of managing bookmarks, RSS subscriptions, and browser history in your sidebar.
Places first showed up in Firefox 2 Alpha 1, but has been disabled for the last few builds. It makes its triumphent return with Alpha 5, but you probably won't really notice any changes, since there's no graphical redesign to go along with the changes under the hood.
Some other updates:
- A new crash reporting system is enabled on Mac OS X and about half of Windows installations. It's not yet available for Linux.
- There's a new Javascript-based password manager.
- And some miscellaneous bug fixes in the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine.




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ssuk said 8:08AM on 6-08-2007
Firefox deleting bookmarks when updating? Never heard of, it's only ever happened EVERY time Firefox updates.
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