If you’re waiting for the arrival of Firefox 3.1, you may want to sit tight. While the 3.1b2 is now available in the nightly builds, you probably don’t need to make the jump just yet – unless you’re looking for speedier javascript processing.
Here are some rich features of firefox 3.1 beta2
- Improvements to awesomebar
- Security error page polish and fixups
- Clear private data improvements
- Updates to strata
- Private Browsing Mode
- Plugin installation experience
- Changes to search plugin update format
The changes that are included are a good start, and bode well for the final release of 3.1.A quick comparison on acid3.acidtests.org revealed a score of 90 in 3.1b2 versus a 71 in 3.0.3 – a gain of about about 27%. Not too shabby!
The improved ctrl+tab switching looks and functions well, and the new TraceMonkey javascript engine provides a nice performance boost. You’ll have to activate it yourself by opening about:config and setting the javascript.options.jit.content boolean to true.
So stay tuned to the nightly builds on Mozilla’s FTP server for the latest releases.
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Yeah, firefox 3.1 is good but as Fireftp doesn’t work on it, i switched back to 3.0.2