Firefox 6.0 Officially Released: Download Links Inside
Add a full version number to your Firefox.
It seems like only yesterday we were updating to Firefox 5 (for those hazy on the details, version 5 was officially released June 20), but already it's time to move on. The latest iteration of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, Firefox 6, is now here and ready for consumption. Here's the link for Windows. Mac and Linux (click here for X64) versions are also available.
So, what can you expect Firefox 6 to bring? Well, don't hold your breath for a lot of visual differences. The Firefox UI has remained the same for the most part as the bulk of the changes for this release are happening behind the scenes. The most noticeable cosmetic change is that the address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting. Under the hood there's added support for the latest version of WebSocket as well as stream-lined performance when it comes to start times and opening large numbers of tabs at once. There's also the addition of a new permissions tool that will allow the end-user better control of which websites are storing what information (cookies, passwords, location, etc.).
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I like Firefox, but since the memory leak fix is only scheduled for FF 7.0, I'll stick to Chrome for a bit.
I try to stick the motto 'open source when I can, closed source when I must'. Given all the memory leaks Firefox suffers from at the moment (oh, and never mind the occasional plugin related crash - they're sharply reduced in number, but still there), it's currently closed source for me.
Might give it a try on my Ubuntu though, given they claim improved Linux speeds in version 6.0.
"address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting"
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't internet explorer do that?
Firefox does seem to be falling behind.
"address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting"Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't internet explorer do that?Firefox does seem to be falling behind.
That was first done by Chrome and later indeed copied by IE 9, Opera and now FF.
FF isn't really falling behind, it was never a real innovator. The browser as we know it was invented by Opera. The last year or so Chrome also started pumping out one innovation after the other.
IE and FF have always been copycats, the only difference being that IE was so poorly written till version 9 that nobody could use it and that it still doesn't support the extensions that make everybody from IT pros to my mother love FF.
FF has a recipe for succes that is actually pretty good: copy (but copy well) and add some awesomeness with extensions and a well written rendering engine. Problem is however that Chrome also has extensions, is faster and has features before FF.
Why do we need a new version, why not 5.1 or something? D: