Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out.

What’s new?

  • Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
  • Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
  • A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
  • Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
  • Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

[See more…][2]

Besides most of my extensions not working Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 seems to be pretty stable.

![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2965354131_67b4977e33.jpg" alt=“Firefox-3.1-Beta-1” width=“500” height=“313” />][3]

[Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1][4] or if you prefer the [nightly builds][5].

Remember!! Betas are not for everyone, their meant for developers and testers.

Source: [Mozilla Dev][6]

[1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/05/firefoxlogopi91.png) [2]: http://developer.mozilla.org/web-tech/2008/10/14/firefox-31-beta-1-an-overview-of-features-for-web-developers [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyportal/2965354131/ “Firefox-3.1-Beta-1 by Danesh Manoharan, on Flickr” [4]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html [5]: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ [6]: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/10/14/firefox-31-beta-1-now-available-for-download/