Firefox is the world’s most popular alternative browser. Firefox is closing in on a 30 % market share world wide, according to W3counter, and with the release of Firefox 3.0, the developers at Mozilla might be able to break the magic figure. Firefox 3.0 will introduce the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine, offline web applications, Places (enhanced bookmarking), private browsing, improved password handling and much more. All of this will make Firefox an even better browser and perhaps even pass the acid 2 rendering test, which Firefox 2 doesn’t.
These are internal changes, but with the upcoming release of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla will also redesign the browser to look and fit the operating system a lot better. Not just Windows Vista or XP then, but several Linux distributions and Mac OS X will also get matching designs.
Alex Faaborg’s blog contains a lot more detailed information on the coming design changes.
