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Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha. This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 "video" element and a handful of other features that move the browser forward.

Mozilla has announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.1 beta release, an important development milestone for the popular open source web browser. Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3.1 a strong incremental improvement with user interface enhancements, new features, and increased support for emerging web standards. The new beta release includes a modest handful of noteworthy changes that improve the user experience.

FireFox – Modify or Not Modify

Mozilla Firefox is the second most popular Internet browser in use. It is only eclipsed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. While Internet Explorer comes bundled with the Microsoft operating system, Firefox can be easily downloaded from Mozilla's web site for free. Currently, Firefox is running version 3.0 which was released on July 16, 2008. Since Firefox runs on an open source software platform, this means that it can be tweaked, added to and otherwise modified to a user's specification.

Firefox is one browser that offers you thousands of extensions and add-ons to get the job done without wasting any time. I’ve compiled a list of best 30 Firefox add ons that will help you do just about anything. On the top of my head and my personal favorite.

Security fixes and minor changes ahoy
Google has released a beta update of its Chrome browser, as it looks to correct security flaws and usability issues.

Although it quickly picked up over one per cent of the browser market at release, Chrome has slipped back to a reported 0.7 per cent, still ahead of Opera but a long way behind market leader Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple Safari.

Chrome version 03.154.9 is a beta release to fix security bugs including the widely reported vulnerability that let sites potentially spoof addresses.