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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. Missing links by Shin-LaC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Downloads

    Wiki page on Namoroka

    1. Re:Missing links by Shin-LaC · · Score: 4, Informative
      I downloaded and tried out the Mac build. Two things I noticed:
      • build alpha 2 is already available, only a day after alpha 1
      • the wiki lists the single most important feature missing from Firefox (imho, of course), namely OSX Keychain integration, as one of the requirements for "Firefox.next". Hooray! It's not in this build, though.
    2. Re:Missing links by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Informative

      build alpha 2 is already available, only a day after alpha 1

      Hm.. You mean pre-alpha 2? That would at least be started pretty much immediately after alpha 1 release. But it also contains very few changes compared to alpha 1, and are the typical incremental nightly builds until the final alpha 2 is releaed.

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    3. Re:Missing links by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Informative

      Hooray! It's not in this build, though.

      No, and perhaps not even in the final Firefox 3.6 either. Perhaps the release afterwards. "Firefox.next" is the codename for a forthcoming "major" Firefox release (4.0?) and not 3.6.

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  2. Re:No link by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here.

  3. Missing Link... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/08/07/firefox-3-6-alpha-1-now-available-for-download/

  4. Too much too fast by apankrat · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was reinstalling the laptop the other day and installed FF 3.5. Used it for an hour, uninstalled and replaced with 3.0. A fresh install of 3.5 on a faster hard drive was noticeably slower than a well used 3.0 on an older hardware. Not just the start-up, but a regular use too. To me, personally, no amount of new features can justify that. So unless 3.6 comes with a performance fixes - thanks, but no.

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    1. Re:Too much too fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      You can still do this, although it takes a visit to about:config.

      1. Go to about:config
      2. Ensure browser.link.open_newwindow is set to 3 (should be default in current firefox)
      3. Set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 (default is 2)

      You can follow the links to see all the possible values.
      Hope it helps!

    2. Re:Too much too fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      You can still do this, although it takes a visit to about:config.

      1. Go to about:config
      2. Ensure browser.link.open_newwindow is set to 3 (should be default in current firefox)
      3. Set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 (default is 2)

      You can follow the links to see all the possible values.
      Hope it helps!

      Err. I made a mistake.

      Step 2 should be:
      2. Set browser.link.open_newwindow to 1 in order to open in the same tab.

      Somehow I read it as open in same window. Sorry about that.

  5. Re:Gotta Love Slashdot Linking by bcmm · · Score: 3, Informative

    Getting the code right to link to something on Slashdot is so hard

    In comments, it's

    <a href="URL">linky</a>

    Standard HTML. You DO know HTML, right?

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  6. Random number bug by manweekdayz · · Score: 2, Informative

    when will they fix that random number generation issue that makes the program take 3 mins to launch? Firefox has been a POS lately because of it.

    1. Re:Random number bug by Threni · · Score: 4, Informative

      In 3.5.1.

  7. Re:No link by lastomega7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now with extra clickability: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/08/07/firefox-3-6-alpha-1-now-available-for-download/

  8. Re:Only one feature is really NEEDED by kbrosnan · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is very much in the works but won't make 3.6. Content Processes

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  9. Re:I am on OS X 10.5.7. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's using it on OS X. I guess they copy Safari there, which would explain the tab appearance. Well, blame Apple for that - they set UI standards on Mac, others can either follow, or be flamed by Apple users for not doing so...

  10. Re:I am on OS X 10.5.7. by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to confirm, I had to search pretty hard for a screenshot, but it looks like this only applies to FF on MacOSX. On Windows + Linux, it doesn't. So, as another poster said, flame Apple not Mozilla. Though, I think Mozilla should still keep the look & feel closer between different OS ports... the MacOSX version looks so differently skinned it feels rather different. Leave that to Camino.

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