Firefox v3.6 Available

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Firefox v3.6 Available

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Supposed to take care of the massive memory leaks associated earlier builds. Supposed to be a bit faster than earlier builds too.
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Just installed it here... looks faster and I hope it uses less memory.
Here are some of the best features new to Firefox 3.6:

* Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart
* Plugin Updater: To keep you safe from potential security vulnerabilities, Firefox will now detect out of date plugins
* Stability improvements: Firefox 3.6 significantly decreased crashes caused by third party software – all without sacrificing our extensibility in any way
* Form Complete: When filling out an online form, Firefox suggests information for fields based on your common answers in similar field
* Performance: Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time
* Open Video and Audio: With the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 audio and video support, now video can be displayed full screen and supports poster frames

There’s also a lot of cool stuff for developers:

* Support for the latest HTML5 specification, including the File API for local file handling
* Font Support: In addition to OpenType and TrueType fonts, 3.6 now supports the new Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
* CSS gradients: Supports linear and radial CSS gradients which allow for a smoother transition between colors
* Device orientation: Firefox 3.6 exposes the orientation of the laptop or device to Web pages
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Just installed and Power Twitter, Sxipper, and IE Tab extensions don't work with it :axe:
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hopefully the html5 features allow the new html5 player to work from youtube...
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Still no youtube html5 support, but maybe youtube needs to update their browser check.
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slugbug wrote:Just installed and Power Twitter, Sxipper, and IE Tab extensions don't work with it :axe:
Im using the Coral IE tab, works fine. Might want to do a search for updated or alternative add on, they have some good ones....


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It might be the next good release to use. Got to hold off for the addons to mature.
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bmaverick wrote:It might be the next good release to use. Got to hold off for the addons to mature.
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Is anyone planning on doing a "Persona" to submit? How about a Legit Reviews persona? that might be pretty cool....

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Ehh?
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I was replying to the "is anyone doing a LR persona?". That what the ehh is for?
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