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Firefox 3.1 gets cool web page transformations support

Today’s Shiretoko (Firefox 3.1 codename) nightly introduces support for simple web elements transformations as CSS extensions originally proposed and implemented by the WebKit project.

The extensions include move, rotate, skew, scale and matrix operations for almost every web page element except plugins and popup menus among others. In the example below, Google’s main page and Wikipedia English home page have been embedded in transformed internal frames: moved, rotated and skewed. I also added some experimental transparency in the mix for a better effect.

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 now available for download

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The first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 1 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

Firefox 3 Alpha 4 released : Mozilla Links

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It seems everything went better than expected in today’s Gran Paradiso Test Day and Mozilla decided to release Alpha 4 today. It wasn’t expected until next week.

Among the most notable improvement in this release is the first iteration of FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library), a JavaScript library designed to ease extension development. This should allow and even faster growth of the Firefox extensions library which already counts thousands.