Firefox 3.6-Alpha Release
Firefox 3.6, which is codenamed Namoroka, is tentatively expected to arrive in 2010. Performance and customization improvements are a major part of the roadmap for Namoroka. Mozilla is also exploring some new user interface concepts that could be used to augment the tabbed browsing model.
Although Namoroka is still at a very early stage of development, the 3.6 alpha includes very noticeable performance enhancements. In Firefox 3.5, Mozilla introduced a new high-performance JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey that uses just-in-time compilation and an optimization technique called tracing to deliver faster JavaScript execution. Improvements to this engine have helped to further accelerate JavaScript performance in the 3.6 alpha release.
Firefox 3.6 offers several new CSS features. Among these, the most intriguing is support for CSS gradients, which allow Web developers to paint the background of an element with a color gradient with multiple color stops. This feature was originally invented last year by Apple and implemented in WebKit. It is based partly on the gradient features described in the HTML 5 Canvas specification. We have seen it appear in several different WebKit variants, including the rendering engine in Chrome. Mozilla's move to add it to Firefox's Gecko rendering engine marks the first time that it has been used in a renderer other than WebKit.
More are coming soon ......................
Although Namoroka is still at a very early stage of development, the 3.6 alpha includes very noticeable performance enhancements. In Firefox 3.5, Mozilla introduced a new high-performance JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey that uses just-in-time compilation and an optimization technique called tracing to deliver faster JavaScript execution. Improvements to this engine have helped to further accelerate JavaScript performance in the 3.6 alpha release.
Firefox 3.6 offers several new CSS features. Among these, the most intriguing is support for CSS gradients, which allow Web developers to paint the background of an element with a color gradient with multiple color stops. This feature was originally invented last year by Apple and implemented in WebKit. It is based partly on the gradient features described in the HTML 5 Canvas specification. We have seen it appear in several different WebKit variants, including the rendering engine in Chrome. Mozilla's move to add it to Firefox's Gecko rendering engine marks the first time that it has been used in a renderer other than WebKit.
More are coming soon ......................
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