Mozilla is working on Firefox 3
Mozilla wants that web developers and its own tester community to receive the first alpha version of Firefox 3, named Gran Paradiso Alpha 1.
Firefox will include a series of major changes. This version will use version 1.9 of the Gecko engine, which is not yet released. Gecko 1.9 is in development since before the release of Firefox 2.
Although Gran Paradiso uses the latest Gecko version, the user interface is the same as Firefox 2 at this time.
Going on Gecko 1.9 also means that Firefox won’t run on Windows 95, 98 or ME and neither on Mac OS 10.2
Among the other new features is an updated threading model. Later in the development process, the user interface might get improved, as well as navigation features, bookmarks and security.
Mozilla intends to release the final version of Firefox 3 until the end of the next year. Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 runs on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Mozilla warns that in this stage, it should be used only by developers and software testers.