{"id":1904,"date":"2008-12-08T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2008-12-08T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:22:46","slug":"firefox-31-beta-2-is-in-shiretoko-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/12\/08\/firefox-31-beta-2-is-in-shiretoko-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is in, Shiretoko is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Release date: December 8th, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla.org has officially dropped &#8220;Shiretoko&#8221; as name for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en-us.www.mozilla.com\/img\/ff3beta\/firstrun\/3.1b2firstrun-robobg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">See the new Robot here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The good folks at Mozilla.org has just <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2008\/12\/08\/firefox-31-beta-2-now-available-for-download\/\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Don&#8217;t worry because Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2008\/12\/04\/firefox-20018-users-to-be-offered-a-free-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">still free<\/a> (seriously, has anyone paid for Firefox upgrade\/updates?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/firefox.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Firefox Logo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox is available for Linux Mac and Windows.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This beta is now available in 54 languages &#8211; get your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/all-beta.html\" target=\"_blank\">local version<\/a> and let us know if it looks right.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/ehsanakhgari.org\/blog\/2008-11-04\/dont-leave-trace-private-browsing-firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Private Browsing Mode<\/a> that allows you to browse without Firefox storing any traces of where you\u2019ve been &#8211; perfect for online holiday shopping!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>New support for <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2008\/12\/web-tech\/2008\/12\/04\/web-workers-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">web worker threads<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/JavaScript:TraceMonkey\" target=\"_blank\">TraceMonkey<\/a> JavaScript engine is now on by default for web content.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Removed the new tab-switching &amp; preview behavior based on feedback from Beta 1 users<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support for new web technologies such as the &lt;video&gt; and &lt;audio&gt; elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Get Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1907\" title=\"firefox_31b2_addons\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/firefox_31b2_addons.png\" alt=\"firefox_31b2_addons\" width=\"442\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/firefox_31b2_addons.png 442w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/firefox_31b2_addons-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/firefox_31b2_addons-120x96.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release date: December 8th, 2008 Mozilla.org has officially dropped &#8220;Shiretoko&#8221; as name for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. See the new Robot here. The good folks at Mozilla.org has just released Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Don&#8217;t worry because Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is still free (seriously, has anyone paid for Firefox upgrade\/updates?) Mozilla Firefox is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/12\/08\/firefox-31-beta-2-is-in-shiretoko-is-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is in, Shiretoko is out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[403,404,493,1131,1851,1871,1931,2009,2511,2517,2648,936,3039,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-beta-software","tag-firefox","tag-leopard","tag-linux","tag-mac-os-x","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-reviews","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}