Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 RC2

The Mozilla Foundation has released the second release candidate of version 3.6 of its web browser Mozilla Firefox. Version 3.6 is built around version 1.9.2 of Gecko and contains several improvements to the user interface. For example, the appearance can be easily adjusted through so-called personas and there is support for a new font format, namely the Web Open Font Format. Compared to the first release candidate, more than seventy bugs have been removed from the browser:

What’s New in Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 2

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo.

• Made some changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
• This release candidate is available in more than 70 languages ​​- get your local version.
• more than 70 fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
• The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
• 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• Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.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.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.