Firefox 3.0b2 Beta 2 has been released and is available on the release ftp server. The official schedule for this release is in three days on December 21st. There is no news yet on what has been changed in this beta release of the upcoming Firefox 3 Gran Paradiso browser as the release notes are usually published when the website reflects the changes as well.

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If you did install the first beta of Firefox 3 and have Firefox 2 installed on your computer as well you might have noticed that both programs seem to share settings. Firefox 3 tries to load the extension list of Firefox 2 for instance and they get verified again when you start Firefox 2.

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The Mozilla Firefox team is currently spreading the first Beta of Firefox 3 to all mirrors and will make the announcement soon that the new version of Firefox 3 is available for download. The release can be downloaded early from the Mozilla ftp site which is always among the first to be updated with the newest releases.

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There has been lots of controversy the last days when a story of the release of Firefox 3 Beta 1 made it on Digg which lead to redirection of users coming from Digg to a page explaining why this was not true and not a good idea to make public. Three reasons were mentioned in this article.

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A new alpha version, to be precise Alpha 8, of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3 browser has been released two days ago which introduced several new features such as a build in malware protection which can be tested on a publicly available test environment on the Mozilla website.

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