Second Firefox 3.1 beta Brings Significant Changes
On Monday Mozilla released the second beta of Firefox 3.1 that comes with lots of changes. The new version features support for video and audio built into Web pages, a built-in service for telling Web sites a user's location, private browsing , Web workerand the TraceMonkey engine for running Javascript programs.
The finished 3.1 version, code-named Shiretoko, is expected to arrive in early 2009 after a third beta, Mozilla has said. It arrives during a period of hot activity for browsers.
Apple is promoting its Safari browser for Windows as well as Mac OS X. Microsoft, the leader of the market, plans to release Internet Explorer 8 in 2009. And of course the biggest change is the arrival of Google Chrome, an open-source project that, like Safari, uses uses a project called WebKit for interpreting and displaying the basic HTML code used to describe Web pages.
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