Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Introduces Private Browsing
Posted December 12, 2008 by Spartacus under under Browsers & Browser Plugins
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
After reading this article on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2’s new features which concentrates on it’s Private Browsing Feature, I thought I would elaborate a little on it’s other features.
The improvements and new features are as follows:
- This beta is now available in 54 languagesThe offer for you to download your local version of Firefox and let them know if it looks right.
- A new “Private Browsing Mode” that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been.- Now I do think this is a good idea, particularly if you are shopping for something for the missus and you don’t want that dreaded drop down list popping down and showing her the websites you have been browsing whilst looking for her special pressie.
- New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.Again, great feature. Especially for piece of mind that your credit card details are not stored in the browser.
- New support for web worker threads.
- The new TraceMonkey (AKA SpiderMonkey) JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Removed the new tab-switching & preview behaviour based on feedback from Beta 1 users
- Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.
So in reality, there are many new features! - Download Firefox via the link above to have a good play and then feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section below.