On Thursday (December 17th) the Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 5, making it available for free download and issuing an automatic update to all Firefox 3.6 beta users. The update contains over 100 fixes from the last Firefox 3.6 beta, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.
Introducing New Features
Some of the new features the Beta of Firefox 3.6 /Gecko 1.9.2 introduces. You can find more information about new features in Firefox 3.6 here: Firefox 3.6 for developers.
- Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
- Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML 5 web technologies.
- Support for the HTML 5 File API.
- A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability.
- The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
- Change of browser’s appearance with a single click – built in support for Personas.
- Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
- Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
- Support for the WOFF font format.
The Mozilla Firefox Browser
Wikipedia: Mozilla Firefox is a free open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 25% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of November 2009.
Firefox: You can download the latest stable version of the Firefox Browser right HERE.
Firefox is used by about 1 of 4 Internet users, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and the most used browser independent of any operating system.
