Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Released

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Released

The first Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download.

This milestone includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.

New features and changes in this milestone:
• Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
• Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on community feedback.
• Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatibility and stability.
• Continued performance improvements: changes to JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.