Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 available for testing

SillyDog701's security expert Juha-Matti Laurio informed us that Mozilla Corporation has released the first Alpha versions for the Mozilla Firefox 3 codenamed “Gran Paradiso”. Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox, based on Gecko 1.9, Mozilla's next generation layout engine.

According to Mozilla Gran Paradiso Alpha 1, new features include:

• Cairo is now being used as the default graphics library, affecting all graphic and text rendering
  
• Cocoa Widgets are now used in OS X builds
  
• An updated threading model
  
• Changes to how DOM events are dispatched (see bug 234455)
  
• Changes to how <object> elements are loaded (see bug 1156)
  
• Changes to how web pages are painted
  
• New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance

Screenshot of Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 on an Intel-based Mac:

Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 can be downloaded from Mozilla.org FTP.
SillyDog701 moderator Puto reported Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 was extremely unstable.

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