[Tequila]

Mozilla has released a Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 Developer Preview,an early developer milestone containing new features of the Gecko layout engine. It 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 this Mozilla Developer Preview.

Changes in this Development Milestone:

Gecko 1.9.3 Alpha 1 introduces several new features which can be tested by using this Mozilla Developer Preview. Many of these features are still in development, and while they will likely appear in some future version of Mozilla Firefox, some may be in earlier versions than others.

-Support for CSS Transitions. This support is not quite complete: support for animation of transforms and gradients has not yet been implemented.
-Support for SMIL Animation in SVG. Support for animating some SVG attributes is still under development.
-Support for WebGL, which is disabled by default but can be enabled by changing a preference. See this blog post and this blog post for more details.
-Support for the getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect methods on Range objects. See bug 396392 for details.
-Support for the mozMatchesSelector API.
-Support for the setCapture and releaseCapture methods on DOM elements. See bug 503943 for details.
-Support for the HTML5 History.pushState() and History.replaceState() methods. See bug 500328 for details.
-Support for the -moz-image-rect() value for background-image. See bug 113577 for more details.

Mozilla.org provides this Mozilla Developer Preview for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in English.

Windows: MozillaDeveloperPreview Setup 3.7 Alpha 1.exe
Mac OS X: MozillaDeveloperPreview 3.7 Alpha 1.dmg
Linux: MozillaDeveloperPreview-3.7a1.tar.bz2

It is supposed to be released in Early Feburary and its first build is already available in the FTP servers.

Download now

More information please visit here

Source : Mozilla

[SovietYuki]

Upgrading now http://static.1.ipbfree.com/uploads/ipbfree.com/sosdancnse/emo-awesome.gif

Edit: Everything looks the same, except the loading image in the tabs, instead of circle dots, its a singular circle that fills up like a pie graph...I like it

Edit 2: It even has Jump list capability and tab previews like IE...interesting

[Dave]

Yea Im gonna upgrade as 3.6 final is buggy as hell, crashes to desktop when I start a download

[Penryn]

More importantly does it have Aero UI ?

[SovietYuki]

Dave, on 09 February 2010 - 02:34 PM, said:

Yea Im gonna upgrade as 3.6 final is buggy as hell, crashes to desktop when I start a download

Strange, I never had that bug when I had 3.6...and I downloaded a lot =\

Penryn, on 09 February 2010 - 04:25 PM, said:

More importantly does it have Aero UI ?

Not yet it doesn't but I'm thinking by Beta it will have it. Remember, this is just the first Alpha build.

[kpo6969]

I used Minefield before all the changes, it seems to be about the same, some add-on incompatibilities.

[tanooki]

I don't even know why they bother with betas. Just release it with bugs let people report them then fix them then add more new stuff.

[Franpa]

betas are unstable incomplete builds and there goal is to get it stable. Releasing nothing but unstable untested builds leads to a poor community health as everyone will just bash it for it always having large serious bugs and stuff.

[Ti3nou]

Penryn, on 09 February 2010 - 04:25 PM, said:

More importantly does it have Aero UI ?

You mean like that ?

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6741/78353169.png

[Franpa]

Either that is a very colourful theme for Firefox or a very colourful wallpaper >.>

[Ti3nou]

Franpa, on 10 February 2010 - 08:01 AM, said:

Either that is a very colourful theme for Firefox or a very colourful wallpaper >.>

The Firefox skin is totally transparent (translucent maybe more correct, since it's Aero), it's my wallpaper that is colourful :D

This post has been edited by Ti3nou: 10 February 2010 - 08:04 AM

[Tequila]

I have check this build and no way for it to compare with Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha build 3236.I mean the UI and speed much better than FF.Opera has done very good job til now.

[Dave]

Can you link to the theme please, looks cool

[Ti3nou]

Dave, on 10 February 2010 - 01:57 PM, said:

Can you link to the theme please, looks cool

It's in development, but here you go for the latest "public" version : http://moddtaco.devi...Theme-153173844

[Dave]

Hey thanks

[Brando212]

nice, hopefully ad-ons will start working with this version soon

[Ti3nou]

Brando212, on 10 February 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

nice, hopefully ad-ons will start working with this version soon

All the add-ons I have are working perfectly fine with the compatibility check disabled. Give it a try ;)

[Brando212]

how do you disable the compatibility check

the only way i knew how to do that was with Mr tech toolkit

[Ti3nou]

Just type "about:config" in the adress bar, accept to "void the warranty", then right click and create a new boolean named "extensions.checkCompatibility.3.7a1pre" (without quotes, and version numbers depending of your version for sure). Set it to false and you are good to go =)

[plastik]

i wish that Strata40 theme worked with tab mix plus
anyone know if there are any plans to update it at all ?