It also receives a better score on the Acid3 test than Firefox 2. In particular, it makes Firefox 3 the first official release of a Mozilla browser to pass the Acid2 test, a standards-compliance test for web-page rendering. The new version fixes many bugs, improves standard compliance, and implements new web APIs. One of the big changes in Firefox 3 is the implementation of Gecko 1.9, an updated layout engine. On its release date, Firefox 3 was featured in popular culture, mentioned on The Colbert Report, among others. Mozilla shipped the final release on June 17, 2008. The first release candidate was announced on May 16, 2008, followed by a second release candidate on June 4, 2008, and a third (differing from the second release candidate only in that it corrected a serious bug for Mac users) on June 11, 2008. The Mozilla Foundation released the first beta on November 19, 2007, the second beta on December 18, 2007, the third beta on February 12, 2008, the fourth beta on March 10, 2008, and the fifth and final beta on April 2, 2008. Planning began in October 2006, when the development team asked users to submit feature requests that they wished to be included in Firefox 3. This, like other Firefox codenames, is the name of an actual place in this case the seventh-highest mountain in the Graian Alps where they first came up with the idea. įirefox 3.0 was developed under the codename Gran Paradiso. Mozilla ended support for Firefox 3 on March 30, 2010, with the release of 3.0.19.
Partially as a result of this, between mid-December 2009 and the end of January 2010, Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser (when counting individual browser versions), passing Internet Explorer 7. Estimates of Firefox 3.0's global market share as of February 2010 were generally in the range of 4–5%, and then dropped as users migrated to Firefox 3.5 and later Firefox 3.6. Other new features include a redesigned download manager, a new "Places" system for storing bookmarks and history, and separate themes for different operating systems.įirefox 3.0 had over 8 million unique downloads the day it was released, and by July 2008 held over 5.6% of the recorded usage share of web browsers. This version fixes many bugs, improves standards compliance, and implements many new web APIs compared to Firefox 2.0. įirefox 3.0 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser released on June 17, 2008, by the Mozilla Corporation.
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