Firefox 3.1b1 out

The Mozilla Firefox development team has published the first beta of the upcoming Firefox 3.1 browser to the Mozilla ftp. Interested users can grab their copy right from the releases directory where it branches of to downloads for the various operating systems and supported languages.

Not that many new features are included in the release. The highly talked about Javascript engine TraceMonkey which promises performance boosts has to be activated separately in about:config by setting javascript.options.jit.content to true.

Other than that the Geode add-on has been included in the release which offers location based browsing although I would have preferred that Mozilla keeps the stance of not including add-ons with Firefox releases and leave it up to the user to decide whether he wants to use an add-on or not.