Firefox 6 Released! New Permissions Management And More Speed

The long-awaited day has finally arrived: Mozilla Firefox 6 was officially announced and is ready for download on Windows, Linux and Mac The red panda brings with it many new features such as’ highlighting of the domain in the address bar, increased browsing speed when using Panorama, better synchronization, streamlining the look of a block of identity of a website, a new editor for JavaScript called Stratchpad (accessible via Tools> Web Development> notepad), a new management permissions (just type in the address bar about: permissions) and many bugs fixed.

What’s New in Firefox

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:

  • The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you’re visiting
  • Streamlined the look of the site identity block
  • Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
  • Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
  • Added support for window.matchMedia
  • Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
  • Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
  • Improved usability of the Web Console
  • Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
  • Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
  • Fixed several stability issues
  • Fixed several security issues

Firefox 6 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac and you can download it from here .

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