Firefox 3 (Alpha 6)

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
by William

The final alpha of Firefox 3 was released to developers yesterday. The first beta version of Firefox 3 will be released on July 31st. The current alpha release, alpha 6 reveals the following additions:

• Updated SQLite engine to version 3.3.17
• Support for site-specific preferences – text size
• A new Quit dialog box that resolves termination errors
• Added permanent ‘Restart Firefox’ button to Add-Ons Manager
• Miscellaneous fixes to download manager including correctly displaying large file sizes
• Various Places fixes
• Miscellaneous Gecko 1.9 bug fixes