First Look: Firefox 3 Alpha 4
Mozilla has reached another milestone in the development of Firefox 3, releasing version alpha 4 over the weekend. As with the previous alpha releases, Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is intended primarily for the developer community and is not yet ready for prime-time use.
Alpha 4 brings a number of new enhancements to Firefox 3, which we outlined yesterday.
While most of the new feautres are behind-the-scenes improvements which are not immediately obvious to the casual user, there is one exception — speed.
Alpha 4 is the fastest version of Firefox yet, though how much of that is a result of running the browser with no extensions, versus actual speed increase is open to debate.
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