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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

by Parm Mann on 2 November 2009, 12:55

Tags: Firefox, Mozilla

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This one must have passed us by at the tail end of last week, but Mozilla has made available the first beta of Firefox 3.6.

The new release of the increasingly-popular browser is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web-rendering engine, and incorporates a number of new features - including built-in support for Personas (themes).

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but Mozilla warns that "most Add-ons have not yet been upgraded by their authors to be compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta".

The browser's key new features are listed by Mozilla as follows:

  • Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with 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  • Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe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
  • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time
  • Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 can be downloaded at Mozilla.com.

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Posted by miniyazz - Mon 02 Nov 2009 13:03
If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..
Posted by Grey M@a - Mon 02 Nov 2009 13:08
miniyazz
If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

These are the two main reasons why I swapped to Chrome for my general browsing and when I need to use a specific add-on that I can only use with FireFox I will use FF for that.
Posted by aidanjt - Mon 02 Nov 2009 13:37
miniyazz
If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

Are you serious?.. Don't be silly, there's wayyyyyyyy more important things that Firefox needs before fixing critical bugs which have existed since version 1. Like, moving widgits around, tinkering with menu options, changing default themes, and other super important stuff like whining about distros patching their bugs and complaining that it will tarnish the Firefox brand, etc…
Posted by abaxas - Mon 02 Nov 2009 13:49
aidanjt
Are you serious?.. Don't be silly, there's wayyyyyyyy more important things that Firefox needs before fixing critical bugs which have existed since version 1. Like, moving widgits around, tinkering with menu options, changing default themes, and other super important stuff like whining about distros patching their bugs and complaining that it will tarnish the Firefox brand, etc…

+1

Firefox needs some kind of feature freeze. The product is great, but it should be as close to faultless as possible.
Posted by Syllopsium - Mon 02 Nov 2009 13:58
miniyazz
If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

I've not had those problems on 3.6a1 (I did on 3.5 though) - have you actually tried the 3.6 alpha?

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