With Firefox 3.5 not long out of the oven, Mozilla has already cooked up the first developer milestone of its next browser release, Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1, now available for download.

"Unlike the year that passed between Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5, we expect that this 3.6 release will be released in a small number of months," Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard said in a blog post.

Code named Namoroka, the Alpha 1 release is built on the pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. According to Mozilla, speed improvements have been made to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. Other features include faster page renders, quicker startup and responsiveness, and several new CSS3 properties have been added.

Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Download Link

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