Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 available for download

[Basil Hashem]

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
    * Full page zoom of images, layout and text
    * Many fixes for context menus, clipboard, and drag services on Mac OS X
    * Reworking of XUL menus and popups
    * document.all now returns a NodeList of elements
    * Several new clipboard events
    * A class of wrappers to mediate access between web pages from different origins
    * Cross site XMLHttpRequest specification implemented
    * A method for opening modal dialogs from content
    * Color profile support
    * Text in <canvas>
    * SVG lighting (bug 383184) and tile filters
    * Support for CSS text-rendering property for HTML
    * Many fixes to CSS font property bugs
    * -moz-border-*-start and -moz-border-*-end CSS properties are implemented
    * -moz-initial implemented for all remaining CSS properties except quotes and -moz-border-*-colors
    * window.getComputedStyle supports all supported CSS properties
    * Dropped SOAP support
    * Browser-side support for windowless plugins on Unix/X11
    * Miscellaneous Gecko 1.9 bug fixes

Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 is available for the following platforms:

Microsoft Windows 2000 or later
  http://download.mozilla.org/?product=granparadiso-alpha7&os=win&lang=en-US
MacOS X 10.3.9 or later
  http://download.mozilla.org/?product=granparadiso-alpha7&os=osx&lang=en-US
Linux
  http://download.mozilla.org/?product=granparadiso-alpha7&os=linux&lang=en-US

Please see the release notes at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a7/releasenotes/
for additional information, fixed bug numbers and a list of known issues with this release.
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Basil Hashem
basil at mozilla.com

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