Firefox 6.0 to be released later today

Published on August 15, 2011 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

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

Comments (Page 2)

Leo the Lion

on Aug 16, 2011

No thanks..........Chrome all the way! Each to their own.......Firefucks was never my 'cup of tea'

RiddleKing

on Aug 25, 2011

tbh-chrome is insanely good. Firefox is a very good browser but isn't quite there yet..

E.g Making customers suffer by breaking there favorite plugins and extensions with each new early update.

Bebi Bulma

on Aug 25, 2011

I finally got around to installing FF5 alongside my FF3...oh man the memory leaks are awful and unacceptable. The wrapper was nicer and more compact and concise...but under the hood is a mess. I'm sticking with FF3 until they release a version with less leaks than the Titanic.

I also decided to try out Chrome because FF5 was irritating me, but Chrome is just too bland for me, not enough customizations.

Daiwa

on Aug 26, 2011

Palemoon 6 seems to be just fine (as was 5), no memory leaks I've noticed, uses about same memory as IE (not that that's a good thing) and fewer handles. I'm sure YMMV.

davyandjane

on Aug 26, 2011

Firefox 7 here and working fine,seems to use same amount of memory at startup but it doesn't build up as much when you have been surfing for a while like it used so all in all it does use less memory.

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