Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released

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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Re:awfulbar

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That's good. From looking at the page, it seems the relevant bit is:

"If you want the location bar to only match URLs of pages you've visited like Firefox 2, set browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17 (1 for visited pages + 16 for URLs)."

"Similarly, if you want to additionally restrict results to pages you've typed in, add in an extra 32 for "typed" -- 49 for matching URLs of typed, visited pages."

Still a pisspoor design decision to not have a simple checkbox in the options that lets you restore sensible FF2.0 behavior. Smacks of marketing and steering committees.

I haven't messed with this yet. I hope it fixes the dreadful mix of font styles that is in the "awesomebar" popup.