Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox 3. The open source browser, which is expected to go live next month, has been extensively benchmarked against the latest versions of Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer, and in most cases finished in the top. The new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine has gone through some major performance upgrades and, among others, handles Javascript several times faster than the previous version, or any other browser for that matter. It also offerrs numerous other new features, such as the new address bar, improved bookmarks, built-in plugin browser, anti-virus integration, easier password management and much more.
You can download the new browser from Mozilla’s website.
