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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Released

Posted by timothy on from the when-browsers-compete-you-win dept.

Shining Celebi writes "Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6 today, which adds support for Personas, lightweight themes that can be installed without restarting the browser, and adds further performance improvements to the new Tracemonkey Javascript engine. One of the major goals of the release was to improve startup time and general UI responsiveness, especially the Awesomebar. You can read the full set of release notes here."

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  1. Speed Kills (play it safe - buy a Chevy) by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..adds further performance improvements to the new Tracemonkey Javascript engine. One of the major goals of the release was to improve startup time and general UI responsiveness, especially the Awesomebar.

    Call me when you get in the ballpark of Opera & Chrome.

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  2. Re:The competition is heating up!! by BitZtream · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft's patch vs. Mozilla's release. I can't wait. The excrement is almost too much.

    Fixed that for you.

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