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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-in-the-wings dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word of the release of the first alpha of Firefox 3.6, "intended for developers and testers only." "As with Firefox 3.5, there are improvements to the performance; pages render faster, and pages with JavaScript code run much faster with the new Tracemonkey engine. Although this Firefox version carries the code name 'Namoroka' Alpha 1, it is also currently referred to as Firefox.next. And like other Firefox Alphas, it does not bear the Firefox logo. This release uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine and will likely include several interface improvements in later versions, such as new graphical tab-switching behavior, which was removed from 3.5 with Beta 2." Update: 08/09 03:54 GMT by T : Read more at InaTux.com.

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  1. OK... by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 3, Funny

    And like other Firefox Alphas, it does not bear the Firefox logo.

    Um... yay?

    1. Re:OK... by Jurily · · Score: 3, Funny

      Manbearfox.

  2. Re:I am on OS X 10.5.7. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Every OS so MAC users can finally feel they dominate the world!

  3. Re:Missing links by Runaway1956 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Keychain integration"

    They are offering a Firefox keyfob now? Cool, I want one!! Can we get them with early logos, like FF 0.5a ? That would be REALLY COOL!!

    --
    "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
  4. Re:Awesomebar really is awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Searching through the history has never been slow for me, I think you're just making excuses for Firefox mashing the functionality of something (history) with something else (ACTUAL TYPED URLs) that never should have been placed together in the first place. The URLbar has the letters "URL" in it for a reason -- it is for actual URLs, NOT history, NOT page titles, NONE OF THAT. If you want all that, there is a great, fast, easy search in the History dialog, instantly summoned using Ctrl+H.

    Fortunately I can summon up some about:config preferences from Seamonkey which DOES allow you to customize it however you want, plus install Oldbar. Not only do you get the old look from oldbar plugin, but also the old BEHAVIOR.

    Personally, I'd rather stick with Seamonkey 2.0b1. It's stayed much closer to what a browser should be than what Firefox has become.

    Anonymous Coward because I know all the Firefox fanboys will disagree with me.