Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13



Firefoxefox browser is a fast, small and very easy to use browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the tabbed browsing experience.

some features:

· Support for the new proposed Audio Data API
· Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over SSL.
· Firefox Sync is now included by default.
· A new feature gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped.
· An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations.
· Firefox now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property.
· Tabs are now on top by default on Windows and OSX - Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
· You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu.
· Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions.
· Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system.
· JavaScript speed improvements due to engine optimizations.
· Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation.
· You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar.
· New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release).
· Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
· The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
· The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like).
· Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
· CSS Transitions are partially supported.
· Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
· Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
· Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format.
· An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default.
· Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API.
· Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs.
· More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction.
· Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload.
· CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history.



Price: free
Size: 18.7 MB

_ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.13/mac/en-US/Firefox%203.6.13.dmg