December 9, 2008 by Jay Smith
The second beta version of Firefox 3.1 is available for download. The browser was made available to Windows, Linux and Mac OS users, in over fifty different languages, late yesterday.
The new version includes a private browsing function that, when turned on, means that the browser keeps no record of sites visited. If you forget to turn on private browsing, you can still remove a specific website and all traces of it from the history. Both features are useful for shared computer users who, for whatever reason, don’t want other users to view their history.
The original beta version offered small preview windows before switching between tabs, like on the Opera browser. These have been removed thanks to numerous complaints about them, though there is now a cool feature that allows you to transport tabs from one window of Firefox to another.
Overall the browser is just generally better; its Acid3 web standards score is now 93 out of 100, which is very respectable indeed.
There are a load more improvements on the last version that I’ve not got space to mention here, so I wholeheartedly encourage you to download it and play around though remember it’s still only a beta version. I’d use a released version for any important work.
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