The third Firefox 3.1 beta was released Friday. The latest beta contains mostly bug fixes and better stability.
We covered a few of 3.1's features before, including an enhanced JavaScript rendering engine named Tracemonkey and a porn private browsing mode. Still absent from this release is a cover flow-like tab browsing feature, missing since Firefox's alpha version.
The features are more than you'd typically see in a small incremental version increase, which is why the heads over at Mozilla are considering re-versioning this release as 3.5.
Work has already begun on Firefox 4 which will include further upgrades to its JavaScript rendering engine and integrating a Mozilla side project called Ubiquity for a smarter address bar.
Testing betas are not for the feint of heart. Crashes and other wonky behavior occur pretty frequently. If you're otherwise daring, head over to Mozilla's Firefox site for the latest and greatest.
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