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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: 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: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/

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

    In 3.5.1.

  6. Re:"pages render faster" by wizardforce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the mentality of devs is that the hardware can take the bloat just give it some time and as far as I am concerned it's a cancer slowly eroding away at what software should be. quick, clean and efficient. BUt really, why shouldn't software be capable of running on hardware for over a decade- we've got a 12 year old compaq sitting in the basement that has less hard drive space than my ram is and yet it can surf the net just fine... The problem comes when devs start to think that they shouldn't be tasked with improving code efficiency because they aren't coding for older hardware. Well all I can say is maybe they should. If an old geezer compaq can hack it just fine on the internet today why can't newer versions of software that do the same basic things cope as well?

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  7. Only one feature is really NEEDED by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A plugin like Flash should not be ABLE to lock up the browser. No, that's not the fault of Flash, it's the fault of the browser that _allows_ it to happen. The browser should be in control of the plugin, not the other way around.