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Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 now available
Hot on the heels of 2.0, the Firefox team have posted the first Alpha release of Firefox 3.0, "Gran Paradiso". Some of the new features include the use of Cairo as the graphics library, Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS X, and improved SVG specification compliance. Builds are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Before reporting any bugs, make sure to check the Known Issues list, and happy testing![Via TG Daily]
Update: As Stuart Parmenter points out in the comments, this is not Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1, but a build of Gran Paradiso using Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 - the rendering engine behind Firefox. My apologies!
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Subscribe to commentsBrandonDec 8th 2006 7:41PM
I wanna do it, but I wanna has two separate instances of firefox, one 2.0, and 3.0a1 that don't interfere with each other.
nizzy1115Dec 8th 2006 7:59PM
You will have 2 separate installs...Firefox always does this with there betas/alphas. I did install it on my machine, so i can verify it as well. Personally, i didn't see much of a difference between it and 2.0, but maybe I'm missing something.
emmzeeDec 8th 2006 8:19PM
This seems kinda cheesy to me ... from the "new features" listed this sounds more like 2.1 or something. Think they're just trying to one-up IE? Lame. (I make this observation as a Firefox fan who's using 2.0 right now btw)
Stuart ParmenterDec 8th 2006 8:28PM
this is _not_ a Firefox 3 alpha. This is a "gecko 1.9" alpha (Firefox's backend). The UI and frontend is almost identical to that of Firefox 2, but there are _massive_ changes to the backend.
Chris BrentanoDec 8th 2006 9:44PM
Thanks for the clarification Stuart, I've updated the post. Sorry!
Stuart ParmenterDec 9th 2006 9:18AM
No problem! We certainly want people to test these builds -- we've made huge amounts of backend changes including new font rendering on all platform, new graphics backend on all platforms, many many many layout changes.
HasanDec 11th 2006 9:07AM
Brandon, instructions for running 2 and 3 at the same time without interference are here...
http://the-edmeister.home.comcast.net/advice-html/simul-profiles_batch-file.html
nizzy, the big difference is the Cairo rendering engine, replacing Gecko. It renders web pages noticeably faster and supports SVG graphics...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28graphics%29
HiteshFeb 24th 2007 3:22PM
I have Redhat 9. I tried installing gran-paradiso(firefox 3) but got the following errors.
#tar -xvf granparadiso-alpha1.tar.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Can anyone please help.
Chris BrentanoFeb 24th 2007 3:23PM
Hey Hitesh,
Add a 'j' to that, i.e.
tar -xvfj granparadiso-alpha1.tar.bz2
That will run it through bunzip2 first, then untar it. Hope that helps!