We all need to adopt with our competitors don’t we? And that’s the same scenario for Mozilla revealing versions of Firefox within a span of less than two months compared to the transition of Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4 that took more than a year to materialize.
Previously, we gave you a quick overview of what to expect with Firefox 6 such as the company’s claim it’ll be 20% faster than Firefox 5, along with tweaks to improve its UI and less memory hogging in which the whole package is already available via a FTP download prior to its official release tomorrow.
As of today, we found this newly posted page from Mozilla highlighting all the changes for Firefox 6 which is based on Gecko 6.0 for developers. Some of the significant changes were: tweaks on HTML5 behavior and iFrame stacking for its properties, CSS changes such as underlines, strikeout, etc. Addition of ECMAScript Harmony for JavaScript implementing it as a prototype, WebGL standards, etc. Naturally these changes are something average users wouldn’t even notice. In fact, the only noticeable changes I’ve seen from Firefox 5 were: the highlighted domain on the URL bar to help viewers distinguish a website’s domain name quicker, and some preferences added for password permission under the preferences tab.
Just like Chrome, we’re starting to feel Mozilla needs to make changes twice every quarter to cope up and for me, this is a smart move unlike the previous years in which the company’s strategy was like “one time big time” only — very nostalgic but highly disadvantageous these days.
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