Mozilla announced on Friday the availability of Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1. This alpha comes just two months after the release of Firefox 3.5 and is the first of several developer previews. Codenamed Namoroka, after a national park in Madagascar, Firefox 3.6 is expected to be finalized and released later this year.Namoroka uses the new Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine which is also still in testing. The alpha includes several speed improvements to the javascript engine, and potential speed and responsiveness upgrades to the entire browser. Also Lifehacker is reporting that Tab Previews, a feature that was removed in the final beta of Firefox 3.5 has been added and includes a simple guide to activate this functionality. The latest alpha also includes some tweaks to CSS and supports multiple background images.
As always with an alpha, this release is recommended only for those truly on the bleeding edge. Mozilla is warning that only developers and testers download this latest alpha. If you haven't been scared away yet, check out the Mozilla Developer Blog for links to Alpha 1 in Mac OS, Linux or Windows flavors. Mozilla also welcomes any feedback, especially bug reports, and more information on submitting reports can be found at the Developer Blog as well.
Also I seem to not be able to visit the site...
http://ttp//lifehacker.com/5333858/firefox...ts-startup-time
http://lifehacker.com/5333858/firefox-36-a...ts-startup-time
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...y/latest-trunk/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...y/latest-trunk/
i'm just afraid tabmix plus will take another forever just to get compatible with 3.6.
And so much of the web wouldn't be available without ads...
And so much of the web wouldn't be available without ads...
Which is why advertisers need to make advertising in a way that doesn't interfere with my ability to browse the page. This means no ads that expand out of their frames, no ads that delay the rest of the page loading, no distracting ads with flashing text or music, no pop-ups that obscure page content (browser window, or modal frame).
When I can browse the web without advertising encumbering my browsing, I'll remove adblock.
If a site can promise me that there will be no distracting advertising, I'll whitelist their site.
First sign of a distracting ad on a whitelisted site, they're perma-blocked.
Those are my rules. They make sense, and allow for a lot of advertiser flexibility.
Until they are followed, adblock stays.
No. That isn't part of 3.6.
Windows version? I believe it may not be finished.
With that said, I would really like to see some advancement with their Fenec browser. I really would like to try it out one of these days, but they still aren't past support for one phone... :?
Don't see any improvements, and since no plugins work, I dont continue to use it.
I actually only switched to usin Firefox lately, and do love it and no longer use IE, but I still find it loads pages way slower than IE 8, but oh well, at least it does load the pages, and not crash like IE, and the plugins make it awsome.
Still lookin forward to the final of FF.
why are you spreading false information? No. It doesn't include the new UI.
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