Firefox 6 Released
By Brennan Spies - Posted on August 16th, 2011
Tagged:
The much anticipated Firefox 6 release is out. In keeping with its new Chrome-like strategy, Mozilla has done away with large, major releases and is instead releasing on a faster, more "agile" schedule, releases batches of features and improvements as they get fully baked.
So What's New?
- Mozilla claims that Firefox 6 is 20% than Firefox 5. This is a nice speed boost.
- The new JavaScript scratchpad (in Web Console). Yes, LISP fans, JavaScript now has a REPL. Awesome. This should prove to be a really nice tool for web developers.
- Added support for EventSource (server-sent events). This API permits push notifications from the server in the form of DOM events.
- A touch event for touch-sensitive screens.
- Support for the latest draft of WebSockets.
- The result of a media query string can be evaluated programmatically using the window.matchMedia() method.
- Support for HMTL 5's
progresselement has been added. - Support for HTML 5's
trackelement has been added. - A host of
-moz-*CSS properties for styling progress bars, text decorations, and hyphens.
The release notes are here.
Delicious
Digg
StumbleUpon
Propeller
Reddit
Magnoliacom
Newsvine
Furl
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
Technorati
Icerocket
The good news is that Firefox remains a lean, fast, customizable browser that can hold its own against any competitor, but Chrome bests it in several ways. I think that Firefox 6 is better than the Firefox 5 Web browser. That's the good news!
Post new comment