Here is a complete list of the 49 distinct Firefox 3 BETA User Agent that have visited my site from 2007-11-21 to 2008-05-03.

Firefox 3 BETA User Agent On Microsoft Windows

Firefox 3 BETA User Agent On Apple Mac

Firefox 3 BETA User Agent On Linux

Firefox 3 BETA User Agent On Apple iPhone

You can see here how Firefox’s BETA testing program has really taken off as only a few user agent were from the first build 3.0b1, but the vast majority are from the latest 3.0b4 and 3.0b5 builds.

Firefox 3 has some really great features, I’ve already become addicited to the idea of Googling stuff directly from the address bar, and the ability to see detailed site information by clicking the favicon is a genuis idea. But I have yet to deduce how Site Owner information is derived in Firefox 3. It doesnt seem to come from OWNER or AUTHOR META tags, so I’m puzzled. Anyone got any ideas?

Here is the User Agent String for the new Gran Paradiso Alpha 1; the beta name of Mozilla’s Firefox 3:

There aren’t really any suprises in this user-agent, it’s pretty much as I expected. I’m looking forward to testing Gran Paradiso on different platforms as Mozilla claim that it’s new rendering engine, Cairo is…

“designed to produce identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available.” - cairographics.org

Disappointly Mozilla havent mentioned anything about improved support for CSS2. Although improved system performance is always good, as a Web Developer I’m more interested 100% compliance with CSS2 or even partial support for CSS3 (which threatends to revolutionise the internet).

Developers won’t learn or use CSS3 unless browsers support it, what would be the point? As Internet Explorer is still the world’s de-facto browser, the internet as a whole is, in my opinion, being literally being held back by Microsoft’s total lack of interest in adhering to web-standards. Because of this more people are (very) gradually switching to Firefox. But Mozilla could really make a dent in Microsoft’s market share if they pushed the boat out and set their sights on CSS3.