[BetaNews] - The public beta of Mozilla's first Web browser that features a private browsing mode is available to the general public today, although the organization has yet to make it official. As promised, Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 does incorporate private browsing mode (also called "porn mode") in which browsing history, cookies, and other traces of where the user has been, are not recorded for the duration of the session. The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which is supposed to expedite Web functionality ...

Mozilla is rushing to release Firefox 3.1 but not to sacrifice the quality of the emerging browser. In a post to the Mozilla development forum, Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, said that the third beta will added to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1 as one more opportunity for developers to test new features and fix bugs before final release. Although version 3.1 of the browser is not a major upgrade like previous version it is much anticipated when Google's Chrome ...