Firefox 3.6
Well, it looks like it is time for another release of Firefox. If you haven’t heard, Firefox 3.6 has been released today.
One of the features that I am really happy to see is that the developers have continued to work on the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, further improving performance. If you do a lot or even a little browsing online, you will get a big benefit from the new engine. Many sites today rely heavily on JavaScript, this may include video or social networking sites. But many other websites create a lot of extra overhead by using too many scripts. This is something Firefox has really been improving on, this just goes to show, you can improve a winning system.
When I first started using Firefox more than 4 years ago, I was blown away by how much better it preformed than any of the other browsers I used. Even when IE went from version 6 to version 7 it didn’t change many of the bugs, and there were still a lot of security issues. It wasn’t until version 8 that IE joined the ranks of modern browsers, where FF had been for quite some time.
Getting back to the 3.6 release, another one of the updates that I thought was pretty cool is the inclusion of Personas. This is a really exciting feature that allows you change your theme on the fly, without the need to restart the application. They are also lighter weight than a full blown theme change, so you will be saving some system performance.
Firefox Persona
Coll Firefox Persona
Firefox Tiger Theme
You can get Firefox Personas here.
And if you haven’t downloaded the latest version yet, what are you waiting for? Click here to learn more about version 3.6.
