Firefox 3 beta malicious software to enhance protection

Beijing time on November 22, according to foreign media reports, Mozilla this week released a new Firefox browser beta. This is actually ahead of schedule to allow developers to see Firefox 3 will be used by a number of new features. The first test version of Firefox 3 has started to provide testing. In this way the Mozilla software release process before the next stage will be able to get feedback.

 

Mozilla noted that the first test version of Firefox 3, mainly on infrastructure development in order to support the current number of new features. Use this version of the test, you will try Firefox 3 new features in the future. However, you only see part of the new features in the future would also like to add more features.

It is reported that the first test version of Firefox 3 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering (the performance of the network)-based platform. The platform, including 2,000,000 lines of code changes to fix some 11,000 issues. Gecko 1.9 includes some important changes to improve performance, as well as the stability of the code of simplicity and sustainability, and so on.

New security features include malware protection, informative SSL information and to identify the owner of a Web site to identify key features. In addition, Firefox 3 plug-in can automatically check, to close unsafe old version of the plug-in. Firefox 3 is also able to download an executable file notice of antivirus software. Firefox 3 also respect the closure of the file to download Windows Vista's parental control settings.