Tip UsMozilla has released Firefox 6 patching up as many as 10 bugs.; keeping up their promise to deliver a new browser version every six weeks. Alongside that, Mozilla have released an update to their older Firefox 3.6 which was launched way back in 2010.
Firefox 6: More like Internet explorer 9 or Chrome?
Mozilla has imposed stricter self-imposed deadlines to ship new updates to the browser, something with which they have struggled to keep up with in their past. But, since March, its 2 out of 2 for Mozilla, they have indeed released their updates well within the deadline.
In the official release, Mozilla has documented some 1600 changes, though open-source researchers believe there are only a few significant ones. One dramatic superficial update is highlighting of domain name, something similar we can already find in Microsoft IE9 or Google Chrome’s bold-facing of the domain name. Another change is the start-up time; Firefox say there is some speed improvement regarding the start-up time. Mozilla have also integrated Scratchpad; a JavaScript prototyping tool, mainly for developers.
Firefox 6: New permission manager; more customizations available
Mozilla have integrated an advanced permission manager option, now users can have more control in tweaking the permission settings on site-to-site basis. Users can get hold of this advanced permission manager by simply typing “about: permissions” in the browser’s address bar; then you can modify all the settings for cookies, pop-ups, password capture and much more.
Regrading the inferface, well strictly speaking there’s not any significant difference between Firefox 6 and its predecessor Firefox 5’s user interface or the even older Firefox 4.
Firefox: Vulnerabilities patched to address security concerns
On then security front, Mozilla has patched up as much as seven bugs in Firefox 3.6.20, five out which were rated ‘critical’ – the highest security warning level from Mozilla, the other two were marked as ‘high’.
For Firefox 6, ten bugs have been fixed; of which eight were rated ‘critical’ and two other as ‘high’. With the release of these fixes, Mozilla has got rid of almost all the vulnerabilities; so now a user running non updated Firefox 4 is vulnerable to up-to 20 critical bugs. Among other critical patches, Mozilla fixed one in 3-D rendering standard WebGL, which was reported sometime back by Context Information security.
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