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Firefox 3.6 is Officially Ready for Download

By - Source: Tom's Hardware US

Get ready for a newer, fresher Firefox.

After a number of beta and release candidates, Mozilla has finally let loose the latest version of Firefox, bringing the free browser up to version 3.6.

For Firefox users, the latest version has one obvious reason to upgrade – speed. Mozilla says that its newest browser is more than 20 percent faster than Firefox 3.5.

Other new things in Firefox 3.6 include:

  • Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart
  • Plugin Updater: To keep you safe from potential security vulnerabilities, Firefox will now detect out of date plugins
  • Stability improvements: Firefox 3.6 significantly decreased crashes caused by third party software – all without sacrificing our extensibility in any way
  • Form Complete: When filling out an online form, Firefox suggests information for fields based on your common answers in similar field
  • Performance: Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time
  • Open Video and Audio: With the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 audio and video support, now video can be displayed full screen and supports poster frames

Check out this video for more:

Firefox 3.6 New Features

Download Firefox 3.6 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux here.

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    flaminggerbil , January 23, 2010 9:12 PM
    Rab1d-BDGRTab title text gets messed up in page transitions and the tabs open in an inconsistent order, sometimes they open next to the original page (new behaviour), other times as the rightmost tab (as in previous versions).

    That's the same issue I had, opening a link in a new tab gave stange results, sometimes opening at either ends of the list, other times opening in the middle.
  • 0
    kyzar , January 25, 2010 9:43 PM
    Would prefer a release for my Blackberry ;) 
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    Herr_Koos , January 24, 2010 10:30 AM
    I haven't encountered this. To my knowledge the new behaviour, i.e. opening the new tab next to the current one, should be the default behaviour in all cases.