If you haven't heard (heck i just found out). Firefox is already in the beta verstion of 3.
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With the new firefox, you can expect new security updates.
But the thing that they are really proud about is it's new web rendering upgrade it well have.
Gecko 1.9 is the name of this Web Render. With it's 2 Million lines of code and 11k web rending relating fixes. You can expect that this well increase the speed in witch your browser interacts with a website.
They are also working hard on performance updates. Fixing over 300 memory leaks!
More info on this new firefox can be viewed at the link below.
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