Mozilla has pushed out the first release candidate for Firefox 3. That means this version should be more stable than any of the betas that have been released over the last year, but there may still be some bugs to work out. If you want to be absolutely certain you won't lose settings or mess up your system somehow, you might want to hold off on downloading Firefox 3 until a final build is released. That said, we've been playing with early builds of Firefox 3 for months, and it's way faster than Firefox 2 and includes some nifty new features like improved bookmark management and a more useful location bar.
Firefox 3 RC1 looks and feels a lot like Firefox 3 beta 5, but there are a few changes:
- Changes to the JavaScript engine and optimizations for web applications like Gmail and Zoho Office
- Improvements to the user interface
- Changes and fixes for bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and location bar autocomplete
- Security improvements
You can check out the complete list of changes in the release notes, or you can just go ahead and download the release candidate. Firefox 3 is available for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
