Mozilla Gran Paradiso Alpha 3

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This is a starting point for planning and design information for the Firefox 3 release, including schedules, feature sets, and branch process information. Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla's layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha 3.

Changelog:

Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported.
The DOM clientLeft and clientTop attributes are now supported.
Introduced support for , which puts resources into the browser's offline cache. This allows a web application to ensure that its resources are available in the cache when the browser goes into offline mode. See Marking Resources for Offline Use for further details on offline support.
Improved precision of layout and scaling across a wide range of screen and printer resolutions.
Implemented cycle collection in XPCOM, which detects cases where two released objects hold one another, but neither is held by anyone else. In this scenario, both objects can safely be purged. Previously, the holds each has on the other would have prevented them from being purged.
Added support for the HttpOnly cookie attribute, which marks a cookie as readable only by the server and not by client-side scripts.
Added a new preference, "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page", which notifies the user when the page specifies HTTP-EQUIV=refresh.

Download: Gran Paradiso Alpha 3

Link: Home Page | Forum Discussion (Thanks Cryton)

#1 Croquant on 24 Mar 2007 - 21:53

Bring on the betas!

(1 reply) #2 godzila on 24 Mar 2007 - 22:05

what new on this new 3.0 version

#2.1 rich.bradshaw on 24 Mar 2007 - 22:18

Changelog:

* Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported.
* The DOM clientLeft and clientTop attributes are now supported.
* Introduced support for , which puts resources into the browser's offline cache. This allows a web application to ensure that its resources are available in the cache when the browser goes into offline mode. See Marking Resources for Offline Use for further details on offline support.
* Improved precision of layout and scaling across a wide range of screen and printer resolutions.
* Implemented cycle collection in XPCOM, which detects cases where two released objects hold one another, but neither is held by anyone else. In this scenario, both objects can safely be purged. Previously, the holds each has on the other would have prevented them from being purged.
* Added support for the HttpOnly cookie attribute, which marks a cookie as readable only by the server and not by client-side scripts.
* Added a new preference, "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page", which notifies the user when the page specifies HTTP-EQUIV=refresh.

(3 replies) #3 ZEROarmy on 25 Mar 2007 - 01:06

Animated PNG = teh endzor to GIF?!?!

#3.1 Mad_Griffith on 25 Mar 2007 - 01:10

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no because GIF are a lot lighter to load.

#3.2 The_Decryptor on 25 Mar 2007 - 01:35

I'm going to say probably, if it catches on, PNG's have real alpha support, and better compression, and you can convert a GIF straight to a APNG (when tools are written) and it will most likely be smaller than the GIF originally was.

RIP MNG.

#3.3 kaiwai on 25 Mar 2007 - 05:09

Quote - (Mad_Griffith said @ #3.1)

That and he fact that gif lzh compression patent has finished IIRC.

(3 replies) #4 j005u on 25 Mar 2007 - 09:34

Hah, this really reminded me of how fast ff can be witout the extensions.

It's also buggy as ****, so yeah...

#4.1 jegar48 on 25 Mar 2007 - 12:15

Considering it is ALPHA and the every day, non developer user has been asked NOT TO USE IT by Mozilla, what exactly are you complaining about?

#4.2 display name on 25 Mar 2007 - 14:06

Didn't sound like he was complaining, just stating the obvious.

#4.3 xMorpheousx416 on 28 Mar 2007 - 16:01

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just stating the obvious.

Hence the word, ALPHA. How many times are we gonna see wasted post space for this "just stating the obvious" crap when it comes to alpha version software?

"It's alpha, and it's got bugs in it!!"

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