Mozilla Officially Announced Firefox 6

Mozilla officially announced Firefox 6 recently. Firefox 6 was available for download on their FTP servers a couple of days ago though Firefox was set to be announced today. This lightening fast pace of the release of browser is a response to Google Chrome, which periodically updates itself with regularly. The Firefox 6 final is now available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux. The Firefox 6 does not bring any changes to  its UI [User Interface], but it includes a substantial speed boost of about 20% claimed by Mozilla over its previous release.

Here's whats new in Firefox 6 :

• The address bar now highlights the the domain of the website you are visiting.
  
  
• The new permissions tool will allow the user to control which information a website stores (Location info, passwords, cookies etc).
  
  
• Fixed several stability and security issues.
  
  
• Improved web console and a Scratchpad tool for developers testing JavaScript within the browser.

Link : Download Firefox 6 for Windows
             Download Firefox 6 for Mac
               Download Firefox 6 for Linux.

[via PC Magazine]

So have you downloaded Firefox 6 ? What are views on the stability and speed fixes and do you think it outperforms Google Chrome 13 ?

Labels : Browser, Download, Firefox, Mozilla, News   | Posted by Sahil Patel   | 01:18