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The bottom line: Firefox 6 is a worthy expression of Mozilla's ideals. The browser is competitively fast, sports a new minimalist look, and includes some excellently executed features. Unfortunately, that describes most of Firefox's competition, too.
Review:
The second version of Firefox to come under the new rapid-release aegis, Firefox 6 follows in the footsteps of Google Chrome, which adopted the rapid-release cycle a while ago and is now up to version 13 (at the time this review was written) despite having its first release only in 2008.
Firefox 4 had a massive impact on Firefox 5 and now Firefox 6, and so this review is not dramatically different from its predecessor. Firefox 4 had a rough time in its early development, but those days are over. The browser that you can download now is in the same speed category as its competition; offers many similar features (stronger in many areas and slightly weaker in others); includes broad, cross-platform support for hardware acceleration and other "future-Web" tech and standards; and is a must-have for Android users (download for Android).
In Firefox 6, you get more incremental updates that generally focus on making the browser work better. One of the most important improvements is that the browser now supports Mozilla's new Add-on SDK, formerly called Jetpack. This foundation lets programmers build extensions out of Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript rather than the older XUL technology. Extensions are expected to be easier to write and ought not to break when new browser versions arrive, although add-on developers must still decide whether to rewrite their existing extensions. The browser supports Mozilla's new Add-on Builder, too, which should make it easier to create add-ons.
Also under the hood, CSS animation support was turned on in Firefox 5, which meant that the browser could handle dynamic Web content that moves around a page more easily. The Do Not Track box was moved to a more prominent place in the Options menu, under Privacy. It's also now available in Firefox for Android.
Changes in Firefox 6 include a strong expansion of developer tools, better memory management for the Panorama tab grouping feature, minor security tweaks to the interface, and several critical security bug fixes. See the Features and Support section below for more details.
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