Mozilla today hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say.
3.0 Features
The final version of Firefox 3.0 is expected to be released by the end of 2007. Developers hope that it will be a major step toward making Web applications indistinguishable from programs that are installed on the desktop, Schroepfer said.
Gran Paradiso features better support for a number of graphics standards, such as the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language and the Canvas specification, Schroepfer said. "These are fairly major architectural changes to enable us to improve performance."
Firefox 3.0 also supports the Cairo graphics library, which aims to make Web pages look the same whether they are being printed or viewed on a Windows PC, a Macintosh, or a small-screen device.
The Firefox 3.0 plan calls for browsing, bookmarking, and privacy enhancements to be built into the browser, but Schroepfer said there is still a lot of time to work out new features. "It's a bit early to be talking about the user-facing features," he said.
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Comments ( 4 )
Wow. And FireFox 2 was only released a few weeks ago.
Benj added these pithy words on
Dec 09 06 at
4:28 pm
wow…sana nga it will be released soon na….firefox is d best….
good day jason….
bluedemon added these pithy words on
Dec 10 06 at
1:59 am
by the end of 2007 daw eh! hahahha tagal pa tayo magiintay! hahahha!
jsonv added these pithy words on
Dec 13 06 at
10:49 am
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