James_A Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Firefox 6.0 has been released. Many blogs and websites prematurely announced the release yesterday, giving links to the ftp server usually used by testers and developers. However, now it has been actually released, and a "Check for Updates" resulted in a 6.6 MB download and update. Despite this, some of the official release channel links are not yet up. What's new? According to the Release Notes:- The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visitingStreamlined the look of the site identity blockAdded support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed APIAdded support for EventSource / server-sent eventsAdded support for window.matchMediaAdded Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environmentAdded a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into itImproved usability of the Web ConsoleImproved the discoverability of Firefox SyncReduced browser startup time when using PanoramaFixed several stability issuesFixed several security issues It's also supposed to be a bit faster. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted August 17, 2011 Administrator Share Posted August 17, 2011 Thanks James! Posted on frontpage and added a link into your post. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Note that this release was right on schedule, just like the last one. It's a big change from the way Mozilla used to do things, when release dates were just targets that they always missed. All those sites that jump the gun and announce Firefox releases prematurely (and link to release candidates) really have no excuse now - the releases are entirely predictable. You can read the schedule at Releases - MozillaWiki . The next one's Sept. 27th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I've been using Firefox for like a decade, I love it. But I don't like that they're making a new major version every other week and coming up with stupid ideas like "hey lets hide the version number". They should be improving HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WebGL support and make it pass the acid3 test. They should be focusing on improving speed, stability, standard compliance and faster performance with less memory usage. Oh, and they should have syntax hightlighting for JavaScript, even IE have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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