Firefox 3 Alpha 7 released

Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source, Browser Tips, Beta

Firefox 3 Alpha 7 released

by Brad Linder Aug 6th 2007

Now that we've shown you how to test out Mozilla's latest nightly builds of Firefox without destroying all of your current settings, you can safely check out the just-released Firefox 3 Alpha 7 release.

Most of the changes include bug fixes and under the hood tweaks. But here are a few things you might notice:

The location bar autocomplete menu shows favicons for previously entered addresses.
Firefox will retain a history of recently visited sites for 180 days instead of 9.
Support for Mac OS X 10.3 has been removed.
There's support for full page zoom of images, text, and layout, but you'll need to install an extension to take advantage of Firefox's new zoom options, as there's no controls built into the program yet.

As you can tell from the Alpha label, the latest release is still far from ready for prime time. We wouldn't recommend using the latest build as your primary browser yet, but if you want to see what Firefox 3 might look like, go ahead and compile a portable build.

[via Mozilla Links]

Tags: firefox, firefox 3 alpha 7, Firefox3Alpha7, gran paradiso, GranParadiso, Mozilla, web browser, WebBrowser

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brandon said 12:30PM on 8-06-2007

The link to the script doesn't work anymore...:-/

lakiolen said 10:19PM on 8-06-2007

That image isn't quite right. Minefield is the nightly, potentially unstable delete-all-you-file release. GranParadiso is the codename of Firefox 3, and should (hopefully) behave a bit better than the nightlies.

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