SillyDog701

[beanboy89]

Mozilla Firefox "Gran Paradiso" Alpha 3 is available for download.

Changes in this Development Milestone

Gecko 1.9 Alpha 3 introduces several new features which can be tested by using Gran Paradiso Alpha 3:

• Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported.
  
• The DOM clientLeft and clientTop attributes are now supported.
  
• Introduced support for <link rel="offline-resource">, 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.

Some of the changes in Alpha versions of Gecko 1.9 affect the web and platform compatibiltity of Gran Paradiso Alpha 3:

• Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME are not supported for Gecko 1.9.
  
• OS X 10.2 is no longer supported, and OS X 10.3.9 or better is required.
  
• The non-standard JavaScript Script object is no longer supported.
  
• Moving DOM nodes between documents now requires a call to importNode or adoptNode as per the DOM specification.

Downloads:

• Windows Installer
• Mac OS X Disk Image
• Linux tar.gz file

FTP

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

[Fulvio]

I stopped using 3.0a2 when it started stealing default. How is this build behaving?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[Antony]

Mozilla Firefox "Gran Paradiso" Alpha 3 is available for download.

Changes in this Development Milestone

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• 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.

This seems like an attempt to destroy the web design in mind, perhaps with an excuse of pushing standard.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

[Don_HH2K]

Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported.

So... they ditched MNG on a claim that nobody wanted animated PNG or JPEG support such that libmng was just bloating the distro, and then brought back something else designed to do the same thing?

Well, at least our only options for animation aren't GIF and Flash anymore.

Changes in this Development Milestone

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• 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.

This seems like an attempt to destroy the web design in mind, perhaps with an excuse of pushing standard.

How is this an attempt to destroy the web design in mind?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070323 BonEcho/2.0.0.3 (mmoy CE K8N-X02)

[Fulvio]

I tried a zip file of a 3.0a4 nightly. It works fine, but it stole default once again. Also, unlike the old day, it installs, no questions asked. Good bye 3.x!
Also, when I decided to give my opinion on why I "uninstalled" the program, IE7 came up, to add insult to injury. They are playing some interesting games!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3