Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6

From DailyTech: Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 has seen a couple of minor delays, but Mozilla has finally finished the browser and released a finalized version into the wild. Mozilla aired the new browser this morning.

The browser can be found for Windows here, for Mac here, and for Linux users here. Mozilla has now linked these downloads on their Firefox front page, though the banner graphics still reads Firefox 3.5 (the text all talks about Firefox 3.6). Mozilla's download tracker, also, appears stuck on another older version -- Firefox 3.5.3, though perhaps it's really tracking all Firefox global downloads.

The new browser build improves the security of Mozilla's popular extensions interface. It also offers a faster and more robust version of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.5 used Gecko 1.9.1). The update also offers toolbar skins, out-of-date plugin notifications, and support for the WOFF open webfont format, among other things.

In our internal testing, we've found the latest builds of Firefox 3.6 to be quite polished, eliminating the crashes we experienced in the first beta. The new version feels slightly faster that Firefox 3.5, when using graphics heavy websites like Facebook or YouTube.

With the release of Firefox 3.6, Mozilla looks to gain more ground on rival Microsoft. Over the last couple of years Mozilla has been steadily nibbling on Microsoft market share, as Internet Explorer's browsing share has slipped. Firefox now sits as the browser primarily used by over 30 percent of users worldwide, according to some recent estimates.

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