Firefox 6 released into beta channel...

3dcandy · 10 Jul 2011 at 20:33

Firefox release schedule hotting up quickly. Firefox 6 is in the beta channel now, scheduled for an earlyish August launch....

3dcandy · 10 Jul 2011 at 20:57

yup...5 final release 2 weeks ago

3dcandy · 10 Jul 2011 at 21:23

possibly but there are some serious changes...6 looks like it might have the aggressive garbage collection that reduces memory useage considerably and the new javascript engine. They are still behind Chrome though, version 14 of that is in beta. 14 versions in something like 3.5 years

3dcandy · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:16

Fanatic said:
They just changed how they number their versions. Big numbers are better apparently. Silly really as it leads you to believe there are considerable changes. Imagine if Microsoft did it for Windows.

Microsoft used to...Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000.....remember?

3dcandy · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:38

I run V6 as my main browser, and Aurora as a "testing" browser. Aurora is up to 7a2 last time I looked...

3dcandy · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:46

to download 6, goto this page and choose Firefox beta

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/