The Mozilla Firefox development team has released the second beta of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 web browser. Firefox 3.6 which is still slated for a late 2009 release will succeed Firefox 3.5.x the current public stable branch of the Internet browser. The new beta version of Firefox 3.6 comes with more than 190 changes to previous versions including several critical stability fixes and more than a dozen major fixes to various editions of the web browser. The update is therefor recommended for all Firefox 3.6 users who are not already running the beta 2 release.
Interested users can check out the list of changes in the release over at Bugzilla sorted by severity of the fix.
Firefox 3.6 beta 2 is available for download at the official Mozilla Firefox beta download page. It is available there for all supported operating systems and languages. Users who are already running an earlier version of Firefox 3.6 can also perform an update check in the Help menu to initiate the download and installation of the latest beta version directly from within the web browser.
The release notes are posted below:
What’s New in Firefox 3.6 Beta (revision 2)
Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.
* More than 190 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
* This beta is available in more than 45 languages – get your local version.
* 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* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.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.
Have you been trying out Firefox 3.6 already? If so, what is your impression so far?
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I decided to try out the beta and started installing add-ons, only to find that Greasemonkey is not supported yet. Installed the Nightly Build compatibility add-on you recommend in your Ffox set-up post, but it keeps saying that the addon is not working properly.
Any ideas on why it is not working? Running Win7.
Not sure why it is not working for you. I run Windows 7 Professional, Firefox 3.6 beta 2 and Greasemonkey without problems.
Did you install Greasemonkey from the Mozilla add-ons site, or import with an older Firefox profile?
If I go to the Add-Ons site I see the “This add-on is fore older versions of Firefox” box.
It was automatically imported after installing Firefox 3.6x and I forced compatibility afterwards.