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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. 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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    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  5. 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/

  6. 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.

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

    In 3.5.1.