Second Firefox 3.1 Beta Due 'Very Shortly'

news.cnet.com — One big change in the 3.1b2 is the addition of "Web workers," a feature that lets the browser process tasks in the background. That feature, part of the still-evolving HTML 5 specification, adds another level of sophistication for programmers writing Web applications and gives multicore computers a better way to use their processors' abilities. Dec 5, 2008 View in Crawl 4