After the release of much expected Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has announced the availability of the alpha version of the browser Firefox 3.6. Please note that this release is targeted to the developer and testers, with the intention of finding any possible bugs.
Firefox 3.6 browser, code named as Namoroka, will be using the Gecko 1.9.2. Gecko is the layouting engine, developed and used my many Mozilla applications, such as Firefox, Thunderbird and more. It is expected that the Firefox 3.6 releasing candidate will be made available for public download during late October, 2009.
What’s new in Firefox 3.6 Alpha version?
To give a short list of new features introduced in Firefox 3.6 (Alpha), which may be interested to web developers, are:
- The background-size property is now supported under the name -moz-background-size
- Multiple background images are now supported.
- The CSS measurement unit rem, which is the font size of the root element, is now supported in Firefox 3.6 Alpha.
- One of the HTML 5 feature, Geolocation, which was introduced in Firefox 3.5, has the address feature enabled.
- Speed improvements to the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine.
To know more, refer the complete list of Firefox 3.6 Aplhpa features. If you want to test it, download Firefox 3.6 Alpha from Mozilla developer site.
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It seems to me that my Firefox 3.5.2 works a little bit slower than its previous versions. Maybe this will be fixed in 3.6.
BTW, can you please send me your email address that I can use to contact you? Thanks.
@Eugene Ivanov
I’m not facing any performance issues with fF 3.5.2. May be it depends on the machine or I may not be noticing it. Anyhow, FF 3.6 will definitely have some performance boost.