Mozilla has finally released the third beta of Firefox 3.1 after several delays. There are some great improvements being implemented by the Mozilla team. The improvements that will make the next production release far more superior then its current version are;

• Stable execution of JavaScript-based websites
• W3C Geolocation API, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications support
• Improved Private Browsing Mode for all your porn needs
• New native JSON parsing support intended to protect the browser against possible code execution

The Mozilla team released the final beta of Firefox 3.1, codenamed Shiretoko, yesterday. Earlier this week Mozilla confirmed that a fourth beta would be released, followed by a release candidate version before the browser is finally shipped.

The new name for the production release will be named Firefox 3.5 to reflect the huge amount of changes in the development of the free browser.

The open source organization still expects to release Firefox 3.5 in the first half of this year.

According to Mike Beltzner of Mozilla: “The increase in version number is proposed due to the sheer volume of work which makes Shiretoko feel like much more than a small, incremental improvement over Firefox 3: TraceMonkey, video tag and player support, improvements to user controls over data privacy, significant improvements in the web layout and rendering platform, and much more,” he said on 5 March.

Firefox 3.1 had originally been expected to land in December last year.