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Here’s a roundup of some of the press coverage we’ve tracked today for Firefox 3 Beta 1.

The hard work by the Mozilla development community on performance, security and user experience improvements is absolutely being noticed in these early reviews.

This is a *great* first public milestone on the road to the final release of Firefox 3.

“Firefox 3 delivers an impressive assortment of new features and interface improvements. There are lots of changes under the hood as well, which improve performance and reduce resource consumption.”
– Ars Technica, Ryan Paul

“Firefox 3 beta 1 delivers an outstanding improvement to the user experience. Unlike Firefox 2, which was a bit light on new features, Firefox 3 is practically overflowing with shiny new goodies.”
– Ars Technica, Ryan Paul

“We’re still waiting for word on the next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but Mozilla today released the first beta test of Firefox 3.0, previewing the features to be included in the next version of the open-source browser.”
– Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Todd Bishop

“I saw a demo of the Firefox 3 beta a couple weeks ago at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, and it was amazing — particularly the zoom-whole-page feature that lets you resize all the elements on a page, up or down, including images and form elements. No more squinting at tiny webcomic writing! No more tedious side-scrolling for huge-mongoose inline images!”
– BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow

“I have no qualms. It’ll be an easy decision to update once everything is ready.”
– CrunchGear, Doug Aamoth

“Firefox 3 employs a button in the location bar that lets users see who owns the site. This is crucial at a time when bogus sites serve as pitfalls for unsuspecting Web users.”
– eWeek, Clint Boulton

“Much of the hardest work has been under the hood, however. Firefox sports a new HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) rendering engine, called Gecko 1.9, that will make it perform better in the graphically rich Web 2.0 world, where developers are trying to find new ways of running software whether the PC is connected to the Internet or not.”
– PC World, Bob McMillan

“Early testers seem pleased with the promise of Firefox 3, which is packed with new features and tweaks alike.”
– LinuxInsider, Chris Maxcer

“A number of meaningful improvements are noticeable with this release, chiefly the speed.”
– PC World, Tom Spring

“Although beta 1 is far from a finished product and some interface changes like platform-specific skins are still in store before the final release, the speed and memory improvements in Firefox 3 beta 1 make it worth the upgrade.”
– Wired News, Scott Gilbertson