Mozilla has made available the first beta of their popular web browser FireFox.

After 27 months of hard work the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine has been integrated, and the development team is feeling ready to share its project with the world.

Version 3 has improved security features to combat phishing and communicate with anti-virus software, as well as respecting parental-control settings such as those used by Windows Vista. Better zooming and tab controls, and tweaks such as offering to save tabs on closing and use of the Mac OS X spellchecker, are also included.

As with all beta software proceed with caution, matter of face Mozilla goes out of their way to say it is for

testing purposes only

. If you like being on the bleeding edge you can download the new version here

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