Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Released, Fixes 190 Bugs
Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Released, Fixes 190 Bugs
Posted 11/12/2009 at 6:00am
| by Paul Lilly
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Mozilla this week released the second beta for its upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser. If you decide to ditch your stable build and jump on the pre-release browser, Mozilla says Firefox will update itself during the beta period and eventually to the final release.
The latest beta squashes more than 190 bugs from the previous version to improve performance, stability, security, and features, according to Mozilla. But it's not all about bug fixes. Users can now change the browser's appearance with a single click, receive alerts about out-of-date plugins, and display native video in full screen. The second beta also adds support for the WOFF font format, expands CSS, DOM, and HTML5 capabilities, and improves upon the browser's JavaScript performance.
The out-of-date plugin alerts might be the most interesting new feature of the bunch. Earlier this week, security vendor Ceznic noted that Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities, 'beating' out every other browser by 9 percent or more. Ceznic noted that part of the reason Firefox led the pack is because of the large number of plugins, which accounted for a "fair amount of the vulnerabilities."
View the release notes and download a copy of the second beta build here.
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sasetcorina
February 06, 2010 at 10:14am
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to
use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking,
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Caboose
November 18, 2009 at 3:44pm
Looks like there was an update recently. And now instead of having multplie FF taskbar icons for each page, it's back to one icon for all tabs open....
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Caboose
November 12, 2009 at 5:56am
I've just installed the beta, and am running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I just noticed that the 3 MPC pages I have opened in Tabs, on the "improved" taskbar, I now have 3 FireFox windows instead of the one in the previous version.
That's the biggest change I've noticed!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
DBsantos77
November 12, 2009 at 6:37am
That's so great, I was like WTF when I saw that, totally unexpected.
-Santos
Caboose
November 12, 2009 at 7:34am
I dunno... As of right now, I like having one taskbar icon for FireFox, regardless of how many tabs I have open. I guess though, that this means that each tab is it's own process, and should one crash the entire browser doesn't go tits up. It'll take a little getting used to seeing multiple taskbar icons (sure they're stacked on top of eachother) instead of one.
Now we just need 64bit support!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
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