Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is Out

January 11th, 2010

Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 3.6 RC1 (Release Candidate Pack 1), following are the latest features which they are testing on the beta build

  • You can expect less browser crashes in the stable version of Firefox 3.6 because the developers are changing the way how the third party extensions (softwares) is integrated into Firefox.
  • The release candidate is available in more than 70 languages, so you can get your own local language copy to test it
  • 70+ bugs have been fixed to improve performance, stability, security and features
  • Ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times
  • Browser appearance can be changed by a single click with the inbuilt support for Personas
  • Automated alert system to display outdated plugins
  • Full screen video support added for Open and Naive video, also supports poster frames
  • Support for Web Open Font Format
  • JavaScript performance has been improved and overall browser responsiveness + startup time has been tweaked too
  • New CSS, DOM and HTML5 support have been added

Lets wait for the stable release for some kick ass features, meanwhile if you are eager to checkout the beta version, you can download and test Firefox 3.6 RC1 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

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Firefox 3.5 released, hits 6000000+ downloads

July 2nd, 2009

firefox 3.5

Mozilla has released the latest version of its web browser, the Firefox 3.5.  Mozilla claims that Firefox 3.5 is the “Fastest, Safest and Smartest” Firefox yet. Firefox is the World’s second most used web browser & this new release is spreading across the internet like a wildfire.

The new web browser, released an year after the previous version, hit the one million download mark in just few hours after its release.  Mozilla has launched a real-time tracker that tells you the current download status of Firefox across the world. As of now, Firefox has already crossed more than 3 million downloads. Firefox 3.5 is most popular amongst the users in US, Germany, Japan and France.

Released in 70 different languages, Firefox 3.5 has many upgrades (more…)

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