Mozilla Starts Work On Firefox 3.0
With Firefox 2.0 out the door last week, Mozilla is turning its attention to version 3.0, with a goal to deliver the new browser about this time next year.
Among the features Mozilla wants for Firefox 3.0 is Places, the revamped bookmark tool that was dropped from 2.0 development in April. "We definitely didn't want to add [Places] until it was ready for prime time," says Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering.
Mozilla has begun work on a rendering engine to debut in Firefox 3.0--it will swap out the aging Gfx graphics infrastructure for something called Cairo 2D--and next year's browser will use the Gecko 1.9 code base. Both Firefox 2.0 and 2005's Firefox 1.5 relied on Gecko 1.8 code. Mozilla is switching to the Cairo 2D graphics library to add hardware-accelerated two-dimensional graphics capabilities.
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