Firefox 3.6 beta was supposed to be made available for download today or yesterday, but so far I haven’t been able to find a download link for it – I can only assume that it might come out tomorrow instead?
Firefox 3.6 comes with bug fixes as well as some interesting improvements such as a 22.8% faster JavaScript engine compared to Firefox 3.5.3 and faster launching of the browser, according to a tests done by Betanews.
The increased speed is not enough to get up alongside with Apple’s Safari or Google’s Chrome browser, though. Compared with Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows Vista system, Firefox 3.6 is around 9 times faster while Chrome is almost 16 times faster.
Besides being faster when it comes to JavaScript, Firefox 3.6 also supports accelerometers, meaning if you have a web page and you tilt your laptop, the webpage will still look horizontally to you. A feature most people by now already knows from cellphones and some digital cameras.
Here’s a video to demonstrate it – looks really cool and I’m sure it will be a useful feature for those usually working with their laptop while tilting it…
Wow, accelerometers, on my laptop? That’s awesome. Can’t wait for the lauch. One question though, how does it keep up with the compatibility issues. I mean, I only use FF and I have tons of ad-ons. Will they all be compatible with this new version?
On a side note and not that I do not believe in you, cause otherwise I won’t be here, where did you get this figures – “Firefox 3.6 is around 9 times faster while Chrome is almost 16 times faster” thanks
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Oh, I believe it was from the test done by Betanews – otherwise it was another site. I don’t remember, I should have mentioned it in the news if it wasn’t Betanews (which I did mention, but I’m not 100% sure they also tested the 9 and 16 times faster) – sorry!
But thanks for the RT 🙂
9 to 16 times faster?? Wow,… that’s going to make a lot of different.
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Aside from using this on a netbook or laptop, this might inspire me to get a really long cord for my desktop and walk around the house with it. OK, maybe not.
I wonder what is up with my system- I use Firefox and Chrome, and although I haven’t timed it, Firefox feels way faster to me. Every report I’ve seen says that the benefit of Chrome is speed, but I’m just not seeing it.
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It might be in your own best interest to delete Polprav’s comment. This is a new method of spamming. I first saw him on my blog and then 3 other blogs thereafter all with the same “Hello from Russia! Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?” I’m almost 100% sure he has absolutely no interest in linking back to this post. Click here to see the amount of blogs/sites, he’s spammed with this technique.
BTW I’m still using Firefox 3.0.10 as I had issues like addon compatibility with Firefox 3.5. I’ll give 3.6 a try and see how well it goes with my present add ons. I’m still no getting the usefulness of the accelerometer thing. Seems like a waste of time to me.
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Thanks for the heads-up regarding that russian, I’ve removed the post now. I had a suspicion it was spam but didn’t think about googling it – thanks 🙂