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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 5, 2008 @06:03PM from the keeping-up-with-the-googses dept.

daria42 writes with news that Mozilla has released the second alpha build for Firefox 3.1, codenamed "Shiretoko." The new build includes "support for the HTML 5 <video> element" and the ability to "drag and drop tabs between browser windows." ComputerWorld is running a related story about benchmarks shown by Mozilla's Brendan Eich which indicate that Firefox 3.1 will run Javascript faster than Chrome.