Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 Available for Download

Firefox has released the Alpha 2 version of Firefox 3.1 codenamed Shiretoko Alpha 2 for download.Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox.This released is ,though specially for developers and testers as their may be various bugs and errors.

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

• Support for the HTML 5 <video> element
• 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

You can download Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 for :-

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