Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.6 is now available on beta version. The Firefox 3.6, also known as Namoroka will be based upon Gecko 1.9.2 platform. This will replace Firefox 3.5 (code-named Shiretoko) completely after it’s official product release by November 2009. You could visit the Mozilla Namoroka site to track development stages for this latest firefox version.
Firefox developers are concentrating on the following areas for version 3.6
Faster Performance
- Improvement on startup
- (Faster) time to open a new tab
- Improved responsiveness on its UI
- Common user task will “feel” faster
Personalization & Customization
- Integration of the Mozilla Labs Persona project
- Improvements on Awesomebar and form autocomplete
The new release of Firefox is highly anticipated to match against Google Chrome 3. We all know that Chrome 3’s fast jscript loading is totally amazing. And although it still lacks some functions that Firefox has, Chrome is a stand alone and functional web browser.
For sure, the “fox” has aces hidden underneath its sleeves. We’ll see what this beast can bring on the table very soon.
External links to monitor Firefox 3.6’s progress:
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