Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 now available for download

Mozilla have announced the first developer milestone of Firefox 3.6 is now available to download for developer testing. Code named Namoroka, it is built on a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform and introduces several new features, most noticeably speed improvements to TraceMonkey and more support for CSS3.

You can download Namoroka using the following links

Mozilla have, as always, released a developer guide to the new features, for a full list of additions to Firefox 3.6 follow this link

Tags: alpha, firefox, fx3.6, gecko, mozilla, namoroka, Tracemonkey
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Firefox 3.1 morphs into Firefox 3.5

Mozilla have announced that the forth beta version (due for release 14th April) of the next instalment of popular browser Firefox will skip a few versions from 3.1 to 3.5.

Firefox director Mike Beltzner announced on the developer news blog that due to the inclusion of many new features (TraceMonkey, Private Browsing , etc not to mention the number of bug fixes already added to Firefox 3.1 ment that an increase in version number to reflect the changes was required.

Further updates for us Add-On developers is to be announced in due course via the wiki, and probably the mailing list too.

for more information, visit these sites:

Tags: 3.1, 3.5, beta, developer, firefox, Mike Beltzner, Tracemonkey
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