Mozilla Firefox 3.0 alpha 7 is de nieuwste aanwinst in de 'Gran Paradiso'-reeks. Deze browser maakt gebruik van Gecko 1.9 als renderengine en is voorzien van de gebruikelijke features zoals tabbed browsing, een pop-up blocker en de mogelijkheid om via add-ons extra functionaliteit toe te voegen. In deze zevende alphaversie is de ondersteuning van zowel SOAP als Mac OS X 10.3 geschrapt maar men heeft gelukkig ook andere features toegevoegd en bovendien zijn er weer heel wat bugs opgelost. De aankondiging ziet er als volgt uit:
Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 7 contains the following notable changes:Some of the changes in Alpha versions of Gecko 1.9 affect the web and platform compatibility of Gran Paradiso Alpha 7. For detailed information about changes in Gecko 1.9 and Gran Paradiso, please read these pages:Also be sure to read the known issues for this release.[break]Mozilla Firefox 3.0 alpha 7 is in de volgende drie smaken binnen te halen:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) has been removed. Gecko 1.9 will no longer build or run on Mac OS X 10.3.
- Default visited pages history size 9 to 180 days (see bug 332748)
- Full page zoom of images, layout and text (see bug 4821)
- Many fixes for context menus, clipboard, and drag services on Mac OS X.
- Reworking of XUL menus and popups (see bug 279703)
- document.all now returns a NodeList of elements (see bug 259332)
- Several new clipboard events (see bug 280959).
- A class of wrappers to mediate access between web pages from different origins (see bug 367911)
- Cross site XMLHttpRequest specification implemented (see bug 389508)
- A method for opening modal dialogs from content (see bug 194404)
- Color profile support (see bug 16769)
- Text in <canvas> (see bug bug 339553)
- SVG lighting (bug 383184) and tile filters (bug 373572)
- Support for CSS text-rendering property for HTML (see bug 387969)
- Many fixes to CSS font property bugs (see bug 377947, bug 216456, bug 383979), bug 388458), and bug 383979)
- -moz-border-*-start and -moz-border-*-end CSS properties are implemented (see bug 74880)
- -moz-initial implemented for all remaining CSS properties except quotes and -moz-border-*-colors (see bug 80887)
- window.getComputedStyle supports all supported CSS properties (see bug 316981)
- Dropped SOAP support (see bug 332174)
- Browser-side support for windowless plugins on Unix/X11 (see bug 137189)
- A full Gecko 1.9 bug fix list
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