- Basic and unpolished UI for starring and tagging pages has been added, as well as a richer Location Bar autocomplete algorithm that matches against page title
- Prompt for remembering passwords is no longer a modal dialog
- Built in malware protection
- Basic and unpolished UI for indicating richer website identity information has been added
- Support for web-based protocol handlers, though it doesn't work in all situations
- A new Applications preference panel for configuring handlers for various content types has replaced the Download Actions dialog and the Feeds preference panel
- All Firefox add-ons must now use a secure method for auto-updating
- Firefox now quits properly (instead of just being killed) when Windows is shut down or restarted
- Added support for document.elementFromPoint method
- DOMWillOpenModalDialog events are no longer fired by the nsIPrompt implementation
- TYPE_PLUGIN has been removed from the Extension Manager code
Mozilla Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 Release Notes
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