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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 for developers, testers released

Firefox 3.6 Alpha – code named Namoroka Alpha 1 - has become available to download from the Mozilla Developer Center, and is built on a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. The release is only intended for developers and testers, but if curiosity is your thing, it is available for all.

New Features

• Compositor (Phase 1), which moves Gecko to using one native widget per top-level content document. See this blog post or bug 374980 for more details.
  
• A new focus model, described here and tracked in bug 178324
  
• The chromedir attribute has been replaced with a pseudoclass
  
• Several new CSS3 properties including background size and gradients for background images
  
• Speed improvements to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
  
• Startup and responsiveness improvements throughout the application

Download: https://www.afterdawn.com/software/network_software/web_browsers/firefox.cfm

Written by: James Delahunty @ 10 Aug 2009 18:34

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• pensfan12

  go try Opera 10 BETA, now that is impressive.

  11.8.2009 04:51 #1

• borhan9

  I would only test this on my linux netbook nothing else. Once you have Google Chrome you won't go back :)

  12.8.2009 03:46 #2