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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing

Posted by kdawson on from the more-features-late-in-the-game dept.

CWmike was one of several readers to point out the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, the first version of its flagship browser to switch on the much faster TraceMonkey JavaScript engine and sport a working privacy mode dubbed "Private Browsing." An ancillary addition to Private Browsing is a new addition to the "Clear Recent History" dialog box allowing users selectively to erase the last hour, the last two hours, the last four hours, today's, or all browsing history — previously, the wipe was all or nothing. This beta includes support for "web worker threads," a developing specification that will let Web-based application developers run background processes to speed up their apps. One feature present in Beta 1 is gone in the new beta: Ctrl-Tab switching. According to the developer, the UI needs more work; the feature probably won't be in the final 3.1.

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  1. Re:Kudos for the improvements, but... by evilNomad · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Ctrl+Tab functionality is still there, they just removed the new interface that they had added in beta 1..

  2. Re:Kudos for the improvements, but... by Shining+Celebi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't know what the hell they were thinking with that. I hope there's still some method of switching between tabs without reaching for the mouse.

    You can still switch tabs with Ctrl+Tab, it's just the fancy effects to go along with it are gone, as well as it switching based on recency instead of order. It'll work the same way it does in Firefox 3. You can also switch between tabs with Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown.

  3. Re:Kudos for the improvements, but... by Billhead · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ctrl + Page Up/Page Down navigates through tabs.

  4. Re:Kudos for the improvements, but... by y5 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Ctrl+Tab functionality is still there, they just removed the new interface that they had added in beta 1..

    Mod parent up. I'm using the latest nightly, and you can still CTRL+TAB. It just removes the screen previews from the previous beta, which IMO were slow and annoying.

    I wish the summary were more clear.