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Firefox 3.0 Alpha "Gran Paradiso" made available
By Julio Franco, TechSpot.com
Published: December 8, 2006, 5:38 PM EST
http://www.techspot.com/news/23812-f...available.html


It wasn't until very recently that I upgraded to Firefox 2.0. While I
consider myself an early adopter, I must admit I'm pretty much
addicted to a few neat little add-ons in Firefox that I wanted ported
to version 2 before moving on. Needless to say, the Mozilla group has
not been sitting duck and today they released the first alpha build of
Firefox 3.0 (code named "Gran Paradiso"). As the development of the
browser moves forward, it is gaining new features as expected, and
dropping support for older OSes like Windows 95, 98, and ME, as well
as OS X 10.2, and earlier.


Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is an early developer milestone for the next
major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next
generation of Mozilla's layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha
1 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended
for web application developers and our testing community. Current
users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha 1.

On a related note, I found this information posted on Download Squad
that caught my eye. Reportedly, open source browsers keep gaining
ground in Europe with some interesting statistics and geographic heat
maps shown. Countries like Germany, Finland, and Austria are showing
over 30% penetration of Mozilla based browsers, for example.

I also thought this would be a good opportunity to check what Google
Analytics stats are showing for TechSpot visitors. During the past
three months about 64% of users browsed this site using some version
of IE, 30% using Firefox, 3% Opera, 1% Safari, and then a smaller
percent of users using Netscape, Konqueror, and others.

Dickie Peters wrote:
> Firefox 3.0 Alpha "Gran Paradiso" made available
> By Julio Franco, TechSpot.com
> Published: December 8, 2006, 5:38 PM EST
> http://www.techspot.com/news/23812-f...available.html
>
>
> It wasn't until very recently that I upgraded to Firefox 2.0. While I
> consider myself an early adopter, I must admit I'm pretty much
> addicted to a few neat little add-ons in Firefox that I wanted ported
> to version 2 before moving on. Needless to say, the Mozilla group has
> not been sitting duck and today they released the first alpha build of
> Firefox 3.0 (code named "Gran Paradiso"). As the development of the
> browser moves forward, it is gaining new features as expected, and
> dropping support for older OSes like Windows 95, 98, and ME, as well
> as OS X 10.2, and earlier.
>
>
> Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is an early developer milestone for the next
> major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next
> generation of Mozilla's layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha
> 1 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended
> for web application developers and our testing community. Current
> users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha 1.
>
> On a related note, I found this information posted on Download Squad
> that caught my eye. Reportedly, open source browsers keep gaining
> ground in Europe with some interesting statistics and geographic heat
> maps shown. Countries like Germany, Finland, and Austria are showing
> over 30% penetration of Mozilla based browsers, for example.
>
> I also thought this would be a good opportunity to check what Google
> Analytics stats are showing for TechSpot visitors. During the past
> three months about 64% of users browsed this site using some version
> of IE, 30% using Firefox, 3% Opera, 1% Safari, and then a smaller
> percent of users using Netscape, Konqueror, and others.

it might be available but its not an official release. Its still in
the testing and developmental stage

wrote in news:1165804228.165032.275640
@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> it might be available but its not an official release. Its still in
> the testing and developmental stage

I've been using it, and no problems. Adblock Plus and MR Tech Local Install
have already been updated and work with 3.0.

So far "Minefield" will not work for me. I've installed it just fine,
but every time I try and run it, it exits without error. Both safe mode
and standard.

12/10 d/l build night.. provided the tree is indeed nightly.

elaich wrote:
> wrote in news:1165804228.165032.275640
> @n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>
>> it might be available but its not an official release. Its still in
>> the testing and developmental stage
>
> I've been using it, and no problems. Adblock Plus and MR Tech Local Install
> have already been updated and work with 3.0.