Although nightly builds have been, and continue to be, available on a daily basis for a long time, Mozilla has just released Firefox 3 Alpha 1, codename Gran Paradiso, using the new Gecko 1.9 layout engine. Highlights from the list of improvements are: a DOM inspector giving you more power in multi-namespace coding conditions, and of course many SVG improvements: better specification compliance all around, improved speed in using group opacity and rendering in general, new support for the <mask>, <pattern>, <foreignObject> and a few filter elements (<feComponentTransfer>, <feGaussianBlur>, <feMerge>, <feMorphology>, <feOffset>), more DOM functions for text handling, Cairo improvements and integration on Mac OS X as well as high-quality vector printing in a majority of cases. The release of FIrefox 3 is expected this coming spring.