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Firefox 3 beta slated for July E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Tuesday, 01 May 2007
A beta release of Firefox 3 has been pencilled in for release on July 31 following the release of Alpha 4 last weekend.

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Further alpha releases - which are code named Gran Paradiso "in an effort to discourage regular end users from downloading them" - will appear on a monthly schedule. Alpha releases are best left alone unless you are involved in the project or a web developer who needs to start investigating Firefox 3 compatibility well in advance.

Changes in Alpha 4 - which is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux - include Mac user interface improvements and bug fixes, inclusion of the FUEL JavaScript library for developers of Firefox extensions, and improvements to offline web application support.

Work scheduled for Alpha 5 includes search engine keyword support, an Extension Manager, and integration with the Growl notification system for Mac OS X. Growl support was removed from Alpha 4 shortly before release following the discovery of a significant bug.

The further development of Places (the integrated bookmarks and history manager that will be a major feature of Firefox 3) should also be seen in Alpha 5.{moscomment}

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