Mozilla has unleashed its third beta release of Firefox 3.1 to testers. Available in 64 languages as well as separate builds for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 includes several new features and enhancements for boosting browser performance, Web compatibility, and speed.

The sheer volume of work that has already gone into the development of Firefox 3.1, which is code-named Shiretoko, makes the new browser feel like much more than a small, incremental improvement

by Firefox 3, said Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s director of Firefox development.

For that reason, Beltzner noted, a proposal was put forward at last week’s Firefox/Gecko delivery meeting “to change the version number for Shiretoko to Firefox 3.5.” whether Mozilla decides to adopt the proposal, “the following fourth beta will be numbered Firefox 3.5b4a,” Beltzner said.

New Features

The browser’s developers have continued to prepare improvements to the Tracemonkey JavaScript […]

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