Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is now available for download

[Mike Beltzner]

(please see https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/12/08/firefox-31-beta-2-now-available-for-download/ 
  for the HTML version of this announcement)

Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is a public preview release intended  
for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new  
features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility,  
and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known  
issues before installing this beta.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is now available for download. This milestone is  
focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new  
features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1.  
Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1  
Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on  
irc.mozilla.org in #shiretoko.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback  
include:

	• This beta is now available in 54 languages - get your local version  
and let us know if it looks right.
	• A new Private Browsing Mode that allows you to browse without  
Firefox storing any traces of where you’ve been - perfect for online  
holiday shopping!
	• New functions that make it easy to remove the history of your past  
few hours of browsing, or remove all traces of a website.
	• New support for web worker threads.
	• The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is now on by default for web  
content.
	• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative  
parsing for faster content rendering.
	• Removed the new tab-switching & preview behavior based on feedback  
from Beta 1 users
	• Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio>  
elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1  
and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.
Testers can download Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 builds for Windows, Mac OS X,  
and Linux in 54 different languages. Developers should also read the  
Firefox 3.1 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.1_for_developers

(Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we  
strongly encourage you to link to the announcement at https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/12/08/firefox-31-beta-2-now-available-for-download/ 
  so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should  
expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at  
this stage of development.)
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