Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #shiretoko.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

• Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
• Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
• A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
• Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
• Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

More information about new web developer features are available in the Web Tech blog post.

Testers can download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 builds for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 36 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3.1 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.

Source: Official Mozilla Annoucement Page.

Silverlight 2 was released today.

Check the details here at ScottGu's Blog.

Direct Link to download.

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 I just wanted to tell you all that you must be careful when buying a domain from Yahoo.com. I was using a Yahoo domain which had a billing amount of $9.95. This year (third year) Yahoo automatically increased the billing amount to $34.95 without giving any prior information and even billed the amount. I checked the help service which tells me that I can cancel the service but I will not get any refund at all. Calling the Yahoo customer care is not an option and no email id is provided for the customers to get in touch with Yahoo. If Yahoo has only US numbers and no email ids, why in the name of God should they bill to non US citizen??

I am really disappointed from being cheated in such a fashion from a company which talks about morales and honesty. I am using GoDaddy.com for 2 of my other domains and never had any such issue. It also gives me a simple option not to get auto billed without prior information, a option which I failed to find with Yahoo.com.

 The picture of the billing is attached for all of you to see. I hope nobody else gets cheated in such a way.