The people at Mozilla have released a new version of their popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox. Although still in beta, Firefox 3.6 (revision 1) is the latest development milestone of the next version of the Firefox web browser, and is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing.

Mozilla does note, however, that the features and content may change before the final product release. Moreover, many of the add-ons available for the browser may not have been tested yet by their authors, so they may, or may not be compatible with this early beta release. Those who wish to help test add-on compatibility can proceed with installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter.

“Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest version of Firefox,” says Mozilla. “Please tell us what you think, either by using this feedback form or by filing a bug in Bugzilla. We appreciate your input!”

“Firefox 3.6 Beta 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,” the company adds. “This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.”

So, here are the changes available with Firefox 3.6 beta 1 for Mac:

- available in more than 50 languages - get your local version
- 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- Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.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.

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