A new alpha version, to be precise Alpha 8, of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3 browser has been released two days ago which introduced several new features such as a build in malware protection which can be tested on a publicly available test
environment on the Mozilla
website.
Add-ons have to use a secure method for auto-updating from now on which means that they either have to be delivered using
SSL or
digital signatures. The real progress can be seen when you look at the list of bugfixes from alpha 7 to the current version. More than 1100 bugs have been fixed in that time which is quite an achievement.
Several bugs prevail on the other hand. One for instance prevents that Firefox 3 is starting in
Windows Vista if parental controls are enabled. If you have been using prior alpha versions of Firefox 3 you should definitely
download the new one and replace the old alpha with it.
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