Firefox 3.0 Alpha 5 Released

Posted by Michael Larabel on June 07, 2007

The fifth alpha release of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 "Gran Paradiso" is now available. Firefox 3.0 is based upon the Mozilla Gecko 1.9 engine and some of the changes with Firefox 3.0 Alpha 5 include Bookmarks portion of Places have been enabled, the implementation of the Breakpad reporting system, new JavaScript-based Password Manager, Mac OS X improvements, and a variety of bug fixes. More information is available in the Gran Paradiso Alpha 5 release notes.

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