Mozilla on Tuesday released the first beta of the next version of its browser, Firefox 3.1. The beta includes an enhanced Smart Location Bar, a new tab interface and what should be a faster JavaScript engine, dubbed “TraceMonkey.” Developers also included improved Web standards in the Gecko layout engine; added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties as well as support for new Web technologies such as video and audio elements, the W3C Geolocation API, Web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications, according to Mozilla.
