The Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features
for users to evaluate:
* Support for the HTML5 File API
* A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to
increase stability.
* The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
* Users can now change their browser's appearance with a single click,
with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them
safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports
poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and
startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Thanks to: Andreas Tobler, Florian Smeets, Joseph S. Atkinson, miwi@
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform,
which has been under development for the past 9 months. Firefox 3.1
is an incremental release on the previous version with significant
changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:
* Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
* Improvements to web worker thread support.
* Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey
JavaScript engine.
* New native JSON support.
* Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing
for faster content rendering.
* Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements,
the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties,
SVG transforms and offline applications.
Thanks to: beat@, nox@, gahr@, Florian Smeets,
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