Those keen to try out Mozilla's latest browser - and its new process to update the software more frequently - now can try Firefox 3.6 beta 1 for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Among the features in the new version, according to Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox, and Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard:
• Personas, which lets people customize the browser appearance. Personas has been available as an add-on, so there are plenty of Personas skins to choose from.
• Faster execution of Web-based JavaScript programs, better browser responsiveness, and faster startup time. Mozilla has been working on JavaScript performance for many months, but the urgency of that and other performance improvements increased with the arrival of Google's Chrome browser.
• The ability to drag and drop files from the computer to the browser. This is useful for uploading files to Web sites, as will a feature not in the beta but planned for the final version, support for the multiple-file input tag so more than one file can be added in Web forms.
• Expanded support for geolocation technology so it can provide a Web site with an approximate physical address of the user, not just latitude-longitude coordinates.
• The ability to detect the computer's orientation for machines that offer accelerometer support.
• Video built into Web pages with the HTML5 "video" tag now can be viewed full-screen.
No comments:
Post a Comment