Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6 beta 2 with 190 bug fixes.
The most important bug fix in this beta version is a mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing the browser. At this time, Firefox is still prerelease software so that testers may encounter compatibility problems with some web sites and add-ons.
The second beta of Firefox 3.6 is released not long after the first release, which can show part of Mozilla’s efforts to bring its browser upgrades to market as quickly as possible. One more reason may be a respond of Mozilla in front of the accelerated use of its Chrome browser.
At this time, although Internet Explorer still occupies the major market share, Mozilla also increase its market share up to 6.5 percent over the past 12 months whereas Microsoft’s web browser loses 10 percentage points in the past year.
Firefox 3.6 is expected to bring such success Firefox 3.5 has gained when it was first released in July. More than that, it is hopeful that Mozilla can capture more than two percent of the U.S. browser market in short order.
Firefox 3.6 beta is claimed to provide such new features as the ability to change the browser’s appearance with a single click, and built-in support for the user-selected art themes or skins that Mozilla calls Personas.
More than that, Firefox 3.6 beta now allows users to view videos in full screen mode. This latest web browser of Mozilla also supports for poster frames, the image placeholders that display in the browser window until the video begins to play. Other improvements which should be mentioned here include the ability for developers to use color gradients when implementing web-page designs based on Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) technology.
