Firefox 6 final scheduled to release on 16th of this month, but Mozilla already made available Firefox 5’s successor final via its FTP servers which you can grab from below link. You can go ahead and install this release over Firefox 5.1 version or wait till official announcement of Firefox 6 final.
Though most of users eagerly looking for Firefox 7 which consumes 50% less memory when compared to Firefox 6, thanks to Mozilla‘s MemShrink project but you guys have to wait for another 6 weeks for its final release or grab aurora channel and you can test its performance right now.
We’ve covered in detail of what’s new in Firefox 6 from end users perspective. Here is the official Firefox 6 release notes from Mozilla.
The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you’re visiting
- Streamlined the look of the site identity block
- Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
- Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
- Added support for window.matchMedia
- Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
- Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
- Improved usability of the Web Console
- Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
- Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
Re Firefox 6.0, please see ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/6.0/win32/index.html
Firefox 6 final is still not officially announced but available via FTP servers, its up to users to decide, they can wait for official announcement as said in the post. Having said,we can’t see Mozilla changing this build at the last moment.