Firefox 3 Alpha 6 Released

Bit deelayed but anyways. Firefox 3 Alpha 6 was released with the following new features and updates:

• Updated SQLite engine to version 3.3.17
• Improved cookie performance
• Support for site-specific preferences – text size
• A new Quit dialog box that resolves termination errors
• Added permanent ‘Restart Firefox’ button to Add-Ons Manager
• Miscellaneous fixes to download manager including correctly displaying large file sizes
• Various Places fixes
• Miscellaneous Gecko 1.9 bug fixes

Also there are few known issues for all operating systems:

• Clear Private Data does clear stored passwords from the Password Manager list. The workaround is to clear the password list from within Password Manager.
• The Cairo graphics system has drastically changed the way all text and images are rendered from previous versions of Gecko, so occasional misrenderings of non-latin scripts and fonts may occur.
• The Phishing Protection notification bubble is hidden by the content area

Issues for Windows only:

• Upscaling images can result in misrendering, causing the edges of the image to appear blurry.

Issues for Mac OS X:

• The user’s choice of a default font may not always be honored.
• Font decorations such as underline and strikethrough may be drawn incorrectly.
• Complex script (ex: Indic) may be misrendered.

Issues for Unix Systems:

• Loading any page with Chinese, Japanese or Korean text can hang the browser.
• Performance on complex script (ex: Indic) may be slower than previous versions of Gecko.
• Compatibility issues have been reported when users are not running Xorg 7.0 or better.
• Users may experience problems when attempting to print complex pages.

More details can be found here.