Download Mozilla Firefox 3.0 alpha 7

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 alpha 7 is the latest addition to the ‘Gran Paradiso’ series. This browser uses gecko 1.9 as a render engine and is equipped with the usual features such as tabbed browsing, a pop-up blocker and the possibility to add extra functionality via add-ons. In this seventh alpha version, support for both SOAP and Mac OS X 10.3 has been removed, but fortunately other features have also been added and a lot of bugs have been fixed again. The announcement looks like this:

Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 7 contains the following notable changes:

• Support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) has been removed. Gecko 1.9 will no longer build or run on Mac OS X 10.3.
• Default visited pages history size 9 to 180 days (see bug 332748)
• Full page zoom of images, layout and text (see bug 4821)
• Many fixes for context menus, clipboard, and drag services on Mac OS X.
• Reworking of XUL menus and popups (see bug 279703)
• document.all now returns a NodeList of elements (see bug 259332)
• Several new clipboard events (see bug 280959).
• A class of wrappers to mediate access between web pages from different origins (see bug 367911)
• Cross site XMLHttpRequest specification implemented (see bug 389508)
• A method for opening modal dialogs from content (see bug 194404)
• Color profile support (see bug 16769)
• Text in (see bug bug 339553)
• SVG lighting (bug 383184) and tile filters (bug 373572)
• Support for CSS text-rendering property for HTML (see bug 387969)
• Many fixes to CSS font property bugs (see bug 377947, bug 216456, bug 383979), bug 388458), and bug 383979)
• -moz-border-*-start and -moz-border-*-end CSS properties are implemented (see bug 74880)
• -moz-initial implemented for all remaining CSS properties except quotes and -moz-border-*-colors (see bug 80887)
• window.getComputedStyle supports all supported CSS properties (see bug 316981)
• Dropped SOAP support (see bug 332174)
• Browser-side support for windowless plugins on Unix/X11 (see bug 137189)
• A full Gecko 1.9 bug fix list

Some of the changes in Alpha versions of Gecko 1.9 affect the web and platform compatibility of Gran Paradiso Alpha 7. For detailed information about changes in Gecko 1.9 and Gran Paradiso, please read these pages:

• Gecko 1.9 Changes affecting websites
• Firefox 3 for developers

Also be sure to read the known issues for this release.[break]Mozilla Firefox 3.0 alpha 7 is available in the following three flavors:
Linux
Mac OS X
Windows