It's the news that most web users have been waiting for, that Mozilla Firefox 3 is close to a public beta release. A few betas later and we'll find that we're close to the final release that was planned for late 2007. Along with many improvements to the image rendering engine and new features such as the Places bookmarks tool, the first beta is going to the first version where you'll see an user-interface refresh.

This user-interface is going to be improved across the board, particular for Vista and OS X users. Indeed, if you look at the OS X version, you may feel that you've accidentally launched Safari. Look at the image, it's very close. The OS X version will receive a few Leopard-like improvements though, including a cover-flow style add-ons browser and more. For now, check out Mozilla Firefox 3 preview 8 (alpha 8).

23 Oct 2007