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Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 available for download

Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 is an early developer milestone for Firefox 3 and the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use alpha releases. Some of the changes included with Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 are:

  • Support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) has been removed. Gecko 1.9 will no longer build or run on Mac OS X 10.3.
  • Default visited pages history size 9 to 180 days (see bug 332748)
  • Full page zoom of images, layout and text (see bug 4821)
  • Many fixes for context menus, clipboard, and drag services on Mac OS X.
  • Reworking of XUL menus and popups (see bug 279703)
  • document.all now returns a NodeList of elements (see bug 259332)
  • Several new clipboard events (see bug 280959).
  • A class of wrappers to mediate access between web pages from different origins (see bug 367911)
  • Cross site XMLHttpRequest specification implemented (see bug 389508)
  • A method for opening modal dialogs from content (see bug 194404)
  • Color profile support (see bug 16769)
  • Text in <canvas> (see bug bug 339553)
  • SVG lighting (bug 383184) and tile filters (bug 373572)
  • Support for CSS text-rendering property for HTML (see bug 387969)
  • Many fixes to CSS font property bugs (see bug 377947, bug 216456, bug 383979), bug 388458), and bug 383979)
  • -moz-border-*-start and -moz-border-*-end CSS properties are implemented (see bug 74880)
  • -moz-initial implemented for all remaining CSS properties except quotes and -moz-border-*-colors (see bug 80887)
  • window.getComputedStyle supports all supported CSS properties (see bug 316981)
  • Dropped SOAP support (see bug 332174)
  • Browser-side support for windowless plugins on Unix/X11 (see bug 137189)
  • Miscellaneous Gecko 1.9 bug fixes

Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 is available for the following platforms:

Microsoft Windows 2000 or later
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Linux

Please see the release notes for additional information and a list of known issues with this release.

This entry was posted by basil on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 pm and is filed under Releases.

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