Firefox 3.6 to be released tomorrow - why bother?

By Sajal Kayan

BANGKOK: -- (THAINDIAN NEWS) Firefox, the flagship product of Mozilla Corporation is all set to release Version 3.6 (codenamed Namoroka) tomorrow - January 21st 2010.

“With new features to customize the way Firefox looks, to keep you safe as you browse and to bring you web pages faster than ever before, Firefox 3.6 is built for the way you use the web.” said Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox Development in a video posted on Mozilla website and is also available on YouTube.

Our internal tests confirm that pages of Thaindian News as well as other popular websites load significantly faster. The key change noticed by us, is that the rendering of the whole page isn’t stalled, while waiting for other JavaScript blocks to finish loading. This is a common problem that most browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari and older versions of Firefox routinely face.

The increase in the rendering speed of Firefox apparently comes from the ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up the page load times. This is due to the implementation of async attribute in Gecko 1.9.2. Gecko is the layout engine used by Firefox and the new Firefox version ships with Gecko 1.9.2 .

“I had switched to Google Chrome from Firefox when it was released because of its super fast JavaScript execution ability with WebKit, but when I tried Firefox 3.6 RC2, I was amazed at the major improvement. The fastest just got faster!”, said Archit Tantia, a web consultant/blogger upon trying the Release Candidate of the upcoming release of Firefox 3.6.

Within the past one month, around 22.28% of visitors to Thaindian News used Firefox, and of these, around 1.22% of the Firefox users were on Version 3.6 (Release Candidate) and about 60% on Version 3.5. On the other hand, 62.24% of our visitors use the rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

From January 21st onwards, Firefox 3.6 will be available for download at http://www.getfirefox.com/.

Source: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/tech-n...l#ixzz0dD7wnsW1

Wonder what timezone.. Not picking it up by default yet..

Am fairly addicted to various add ons.. But have to say Chrome is WAY faster and the more I use complex web tools the more you feel it..

Mozilla Firefox 3.6

The official download time starts at 09.30am PST, that's 00.30am tomorrow Friday morning.

that's nice i prefer firefox. its much better thn the internet-explorer. the password manager at internet explorer is so annoying!!

Thank you Georges... just download now

Seems to be no different so far, except that a new tab which is middle-clicked to be opened now opens next to the currently active tab rather than at the end like on previous versions. A slight bug, though is that if you middle click a control in the toolbar, e.g. the home icon or your Gmail envelope, these clicks still open at the end. The inconsistency can be a bit disconcerting.

Not going to bother with gimicks like the personas. Also one of my key addons "Measureit" isn't compatible - now I feel naked without it!

Haven't noticed any great speed difference. Seems to be a wee bug with the home pages when opening the browser (sometimes).

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Not going to bother with gimicks like the personas. Also one of my key addons "Measureit" isn't compatible - now I feel naked without it!

Firefox 3.6 to be released tomorrow - why bother?

Indeed. I wish I hadn't. I'm going back to 3.5.7 so that the 19 extensions that are "incompatible" with 3.6 will start working again.

I think I will wait a bit.

I use a number of plugins and I bet they do not work yet in the new release..........

Will revert to 3.5.7 because of some add-ons. They don't run under 3.6

Ive been PRO firefox since it first become available but ive had some many issues with it on win7 (not responding practically everytime i open a page) ive gone over to google chrome.....i love it, it does what it says it does with zero 'not responding' &lt;deleted&gt;.... am just awaiting for some firefox add-ons to be done.

I'm contemplating going back as well as there are a few things I don't like. The opening of clicked through new tabs to the tab next to the one you are currently in rather than plonking it at the end of your tab screen is very welcome though. I often have 15+ tabs open and this is a real benefit.

Where is FF 4.0 ? Apparently 64 bit.

I'm contemplating going back as well as there are a few things I don't like. The opening of clicked through new tabs to the tab next to the one you are currently in rather than plonking it at the end of your tab screen is very welcome though. I often have 15+ tabs open and this is a real benefit.

Where is FF 4.0 ? Apparently 64 bit.

Try "Tree Style Tabs" - get a better view of which tabs are related: