You can test out Firefox 3.0 Released Candidate 1 now.

Click here to download Firefox 3.0 RC 1. (WARNING : SOFTWARE IS A RELEASED CANDIDATE. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!)

Why even bother with Firefox 3, you may ask?

Well, here are some of the features in Firefox 3 that you should know!

URL bar powered!

More information in the url bar. And it even has a gmail style star!!!

Build for Security!

You know you are going to the actual site, instead of a phishing website!

If you click on a suspicious link, it will warn you about it!!!

And many more features, you can read them up on them here.

I downloaded Wordpress RC1 and try it on my current theme. It works, so far so good!

Have a look at it here -> http://beta.kennyljs.com/

Wordpress 2.5 new Dashboard.

New Wordpress Write Interface.

I think this new admin dashboard for Wordpress is nice. And it’s neater than the previous version. What do you think?

Wordpress has released Wordpress 2.3.1 Released Candidate 1 to the beta testers. Here is the list of fixed since 2.3. Changelog is basically the same as Wordpress 2.3.1 Beta1 except changes to wp-mail.php.

According to the bug fixed list, has any bug or problems you encounter being fixed?

Bug fixed list :

1. Email notifications fail on hosted sites that check sender address
2. Add Windows Live Writer manifest XML file (and images), enables tagging support
3. i18n error in MT importer
4. Spelling error in UTW importer
5. clean_url() should not encode ampersands on the way to the db
6. Post preview broken
7. Visual Editor Disabled, Editing a Page With HTML Encoded Entities &lt;span&gt; changes them into <> changing the content
8. Posting from email addresses with “hyphen” cannot be assigned to the user
9. statistics reported back from wordpress 2.3 bugged
10. WordPress (plugin) updates compare unexpected values to find update matches
11. Blogroll -> Import Links doesn’t use link terms and importing assigns them to numerical categories
12. “Browse” interface in “Upload” broken
13. Duplicate entry errors when inserting term relationships during upgrade to 2.3
14. Use INNER JOIN instead of LEFT JOIN for taxonomy
15. Undeclared variable in _cat_row()
16. Taxonomy intersection queries are inefficient
17. Pages are not sanitized in wp-admin/page.php
18. wp_safe_redirect() case sensitive for hostnames
19. Send To Editor fails if title is empty
20. Widget class name is mispelled ( widget_catgories)
21. Cookie testing prevents login
22. Ensure Prototype is loaded before jQuery
23. “Convert All Categories” likely should be removed
24. get_pages filter may be applied twice

Probably a final version will be out soon. Prepare to upgrade!