Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 Launched

The second milestone of the next release of Firefox has been launched and available for download. The code name is: Shiretoko Alpha 2. Strange name isnt it!!!!!!

This Shiretoko Alpha 2 actually is built on the pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. One most important to note for you guys is that this release is not meant for general public as such. Its being released only for developers and testers. I can say it still contains some issues yet to be fixed.

This Alpha of Shiretoko / Gecko 1.9.1 introduces several new features:

• Support for the HTML 5
• Initial support for web worker threads
• You can now drag and drop tabs between browser windows
• New selector to create areas of Aero-style “glass” in XUL
• Support for CSS 2.1 properties: ::before and ::after, and white-space:pre-line
• Support for CSS 3 properties: -moz-border-image, word-wrap: break-word, text-shadow, box-shadow and column-rule
• Performance improvements and new preference values for color management profile support

Some of the links where you can find Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 for download are:-

• Windows Platform: Shiretoko Alpha 2 Setup.exe
• Mac OS X Platform: Shiretoko Alpha 2.dmg
• Linux Platform: shiretoko-alpha2.tar.bz2

Lets see what sort of response it gets from the users.