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Even after the release of Firefox 3.6, Chrome still holds the fastest speed for rendering JavaScript. Internet Explorer, as usual, is the slowest.

Firefox renders JavaScript three times faster than Opera 10 and more than four times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). But even with the JavaScript speed boost, Firefox 3.6 can't match Safari or Chrome. Safari is twice as fast -- and Chrome 4.0 nearly twice as fast -- as Firefox.

Download Firefox 3.6 from here.

Firefox 3.6 is scheduled to arrive tomorrow morning Pacific time.

Via Mozilla Blog 

Here's a peek at the new Firefox 4.0 interface. One of the Firefox designers unveiled the screenshots on his blog. View more screenshots after the jump.

Aims for a release candidate this week


Mozilla last week slipped in a fourth beta of its upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser, but said this week that it is still shooting to ship the final code by the end of the year.

Last Thursday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 after developers decided that the browser upgrade needed further testing before moving on to a release candidate.

"Due to the excellent work on knocking down the Firefox 3.6 Beta topcrash list, we've decided that it would be worthwhile to ship another beta update to our close to half million testers to confirm our expectations," Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, said in a message posted to the Mozilla developers planning forum last Tuesday.


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Microsoft's next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance, according to the firm's top IE manager.

But Microsoft won't be alone. Rivals including Mozilla, which makes Firefox, and Norwegian developer Opera, are working on ways to use a computer's graphics processor unit (GPU) to accelerate their browsers.

Microsoft last week revealed a few details about IE9, which has no set ship date or even a publicly-disclosed development plan. While acknowledging that the company had a lot of catching up to do, however, Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's president of Windows and Windows Live, said that early work on IE9 had already shown significant performance strides.

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A new web browser, Firefox 1.0 was born on November 9, 2004 - Mozilla launched Firefox as part of an experiment in the Mozilla project.

Its objective was to make the Mozilla browser available in a light version. And Boom! Both developers and users liked it so much it was more widely used than expected.

Still growing strong with many supporters, Firefox holds a quarter of the browser market with over 330 million users in just five years later. Check the video out in the link below to know about the Firefox story and how it began.