Developers from Mozilla released the first official beta version of Firefox 3. Although beta 1 is far from a finished product, first reviews suggests that speed and memory improvements in Firefox 3 beta 1 make it worth the upgrade. Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which include the open source Cairo rendering framework and features heavily refactored reflow algorithms that improve Firefox layout functionality and resolve some long-standing CSS bugs. Beta 1 features a new bookmark-management system called Places, new downloads panel, new star icon in Location bar with some changes, advanced add-on manager or installing and maintaining third-party plug-ins. Also FF3 comes with improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.Tests made with this Beta 1 showed that Firefox 3 runs significantly faster than FF2, it consume just 60MB of RAM memory and frees CPU usage. Page loads are quicker and Ajax-heavy sites like GMail refresh in breeze. Enough reasons for eager awaiting for final product!
Florida based Devil Mountain Systems got the chance to test new beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 3. As report says new SP3 will boost the general performance of system for 10 percent. Obviously this will be must have update. This is another blow to Vista development of it’s SP1 which won’t offer much in the way of noticeable fixes, and certainly won’t speed things up. If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista don’t expect much from SP1.
