Ramblings of an old Doc

 

Neowin announced this morning that Mozilla will be releasing Firefox 6.0 later today.

It was only in July that 5.0 was released. Numerous betas and ‘nightlies’ have been available since then.

What’s new?

The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:

  • The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting
  • Streamlined the look of the site identity block
  • Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
  • Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
  • Added support for window.matchMedia
  • Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
  • Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
  • Improved usability of the Web Console
  • Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
  • Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama

                                                                                                                 - Neowin

 

 

Source:  http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-60-to-ship-today

For the complete bug fix list:  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/6.0/releasenotes/buglist.html

To download Firefox 6.0:  Windows  (13.1 MB)-  http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-6.0&os=win&lang=en-US

                                                     Mac (28 MB) - http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-6.0&os=osx&lang=en-US

 

 

 


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on Aug 15, 2011

Great, bad enough I am debating between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, now they have this coming out with Firefox 7 hot on it's heals with promises of less memory usage.

on Aug 15, 2011

Firefox 7??????

crap, at least make a version 6.1, I miss the decimal version numbers...

on Aug 15, 2011

At this rate, they will be up to version 10 by Christmas!  But even looking at the changes, it looks like it should be 5.1, not 6.0.  Still, it has enough good stuff that I will upgrade.

on Aug 15, 2011

Meh...

on Aug 15, 2011

As a private user, yay. I'm glad my company isn't large enough to suffer a total breakdown every time an update is released.

on Aug 15, 2011

i haven't even did 5.X yet

on Aug 15, 2011

I'm using Comodo Dragon Chrome... good browser.

on Aug 15, 2011

I'm so happy I don't play the browser square dance, changing partners and all that. 

on Aug 15, 2011

No thanks. Will not work with my favorite extensions. I'll stick to version 3.6.17.

on Aug 15, 2011

DrJBHL
I'm using Comodo Dragon Chrome... good browser.

You are so fickle, Doc.

on Aug 15, 2011

Browser hipster!

 

I'm using this thing called Netskycyberinterpetrula browser. You've probably never heard of it.

on Aug 15, 2011


Quoting DrJBHL, reply 7I'm using Comodo Dragon Chrome... good browser.

You are so fickle, Doc.

No, Daiwa.... I use several. Since I loved Chrome's speed but wasn't fond of it's security, I went to Comodo-Dragon.

At the moment? FF6.

I fell out of love with Opera when it's security levels were revealed to be lower that desirable, and when I had font rendering problems with it.

Changing the default fonts cured that (changed to Verdana).

on Aug 15, 2011

DrJBHL
No, Daiwa.... I use several.

Isn't that the definition? 

on Aug 15, 2011

The hell happened to Neoplanet ?

Ahead of it's time, and dead too soon.

on Aug 15, 2011

I musta missed it...lol. 

 

 

EDIT...T'was in the OP. I'd say I missed it...DOH! 

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