Entered CNET Catalog: 12/12/2006
SKU: SERVFIREFOX3GRANPARADISOALPHA1
Manufacturer: delete
Editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 12/11/2006
What's exciting about Gran Paradiso is its new rendering engine. The Gekko 1.9 rendering engine will introduce some changes. For example, Firefox 3 will no longer support Windows 95, 98, and Me, and for the Mac OS X, versions 10.2 and earlier will not longer be supported. There will also be numerous changes made to the Document Object Model (DOM) in Gekko 1.9, which will affect developers more than end users. Also, there will be changes in the way Firefox renders frames within its display and the way object tags are handled, as well as changes in event threading.
Also new are its advanced graphics rendering capabilities. Firefox 3 uses open-source vector graphics (code-named Cairo, and formerly known as Xr) to provide high-quality display and print rendering. Currently Cairo supports output produced by X Windows, OpenGL, Quartz, Win32, in-memory image buffers, PNG images, PostScript, and PDF files. Cairo attempts to reproduce identical images on all output media (paper, disc drives, and such) and use hardware acceleration where possible to improve images on display screens.
Mac OS X users will experience a more native look and feel, better platform integration, and performance as Firefox incorporates the latest Mac OS API's.
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just when we couldn't get enough of firefox 2.0 here comes this
Pros: nice browser, very good overall
Cons: its still alpha, which means there will be bugs in it, also lack of themes and other add ons will turn some people off
Keep in mind that the current firefox and Gran Paradiso (aka firefox 3.0) will be under separate programs. It will not merge itself into your current firefox browser but its more like a peeker program... separate from its older cousin yet produced by the same company.
The only problem with it is the lack of support from extensions and themes. i could hardly find any from both catagories... but hey, who really needs them anyway?
If you want more information go to this site
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a1/releasenotes/
the release notes will contain everything you need to know and the place to download.
If not satisfied, just uninstall gran paradiso, and your firefox will stay the same.
Full release is anticipated for November 2007 according to mozilla.
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