After nearly three years in development, Mozilla released their Firefox 3 today with loads of upgrade.

Memory-usage improvement has been a consistent theme.

  • Cairo used as a graphics back-end.
  • [Mac Feature] Cocoa Widgets included in OS X builds.
  • API’s implemented from WHATWG specs.
  • Changes to how DOM events are dispatched, how HTML object elements are loaded, and how web pages are rendered.
  • New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance.
  • Acid2 test compliant.
  • New UI improvements, including default themes for different operating systems and new download manager.
  • Windows 95, 98, ME, Mac OS X v10.3.9 [21]and lower, and GTK+ 2.8 and lowerbare no longer supported.
  • Addons.mozilla.org integration in the Add-ons window.
  • Support for APNG files.