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Firefox 3.6 needs more, better features to compete against Chrome 3
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published August 10, 2009, 5:34 PM

Last April, Mozilla gave the first public indication of the feature set it was planning for the version of Firefox that could be released in the fall of this year. Among them were the following: a thumbnail preview mode for tab switching using Ctrl+Tab; an integrated, if limited, version of the Ubiquity command line tool; live theme changes without reboots; a new and more fully loaded "New Tab" feature; a complete status window that answers to the URL about:me; and integration of the desktop Web application platform Prism.

But in releasing the first public edition of the Firefox 3.6 alpha, code-named "Namoroka," general testers will find none of these features -- at least, not yet. Only in the private nightly builds may some testers begin to see features including Ctrl+Tab preview, but now it's believed that integrated Prism and other features will not make it into the final release.

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http://www.betanews.com/article/Firefox-36...me-3/1249940057
Chachazz
Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 now available for download

The first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox – code named Namoroka Alpha 1 – is now available for download. Namoroka is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

This Alpha of Namoroka / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:
  • Compositor (Phase 1), which moves Gecko to using one native widget per top-level content document. See this blog post or bug 374980 for more details.
  • A new focus model, described here and tracked in bug 178324
  • The chromedir attribute has been replaced with a pseudoclass
  • Several new CSS3 properties including background size and gradients for background images
  • Speed improvements to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
  • Startup and responsiveness improvements throughout the application
Anyone interested in Namoroka should read the article about Firefox 3.6 for developers on the Mozilla Developer Center. For a full list of changes, see this list (it’s big). https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index...e-for-download/
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