FireFox 3.6 Beta 5

FireFox 3.6 Beta 5 has been released to the public with a wide range of new features.

Stable enough to use, and with new and surprising features, who could resist downloading a beta program? Techno-Geeks, gamers, computer specialists — none of us seem to be able to wait for the title “Stable” to appear in front of our favourite programs.

FireFox is now introducing the ability to [easily] apply themes to the browser using a new feature called “Personas”. Personas are a very new, dynamic way of selecting a new theme. All the Personas in the Persona Gallery are clean, imaginative, and very well done. Selections vary from Winter and Christmas themes to beaches, movies, music artists, vacation spots, foxes (of course), modern, old, flowers — everything.

For the most part, FireFox 3.6 Beta 5 is visibly the same as the previous version of FireFox, with the exception of a few minor layout and menu shifts.

The following is directly from the Mozilla FireFox Release Notes

• [NEW] Made some changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
• [NEW] This beta is available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
• More than 100 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
• The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
• Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
• Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
• Support for the WOFF font format.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.