Firefox 3.6 is the dream Internet browser you've always been looking for.
It displays an elegant simplicity and makes your web experience better, much faster and thoroughly enjoyable.
Firefox currently accounts for about 25% of all browsers used worldwide, according to the most recent data from Web metrics company NetApplications.com. With a quarter of the browser market, Firefox is a distant second to IE's 63%, but enjoys a huge cushion over the current No. 3 browser, Chrome, which has a 5% share.
Firefox 3.6 is about 15% faster than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5. And with JavaScript that’s more than three times as fast as Firefox 3 and 20% faster than Firefox 3.5, you’ll easily be able to see the improvement in overall speed.
New in Firefox 3.6 are Personas. These are easy-to-install themes that help you personalise the overall look and feel of your browser.
There are hundreds of Persona's to choose from. Just check this persona's video on Mozilla's website.
Firefox 3.6 also includes many built-in security-related features, such as the best-of-breed anti-phishing protection, making it the most secure browser on the market today.
This upgraded Phishing Protection takes Firefox’s security to a new level, helping to safeguard your financial information and protect you from identity theft.
Additional security features include Malware protection and enhancements to the password manager. There is also far greater security for add-ons and downloads.
To keep Firefox current with any security fixes, the browser is designed to check for updates automatically and pops up a box on your desktop to inform you when these are available for download.
Firefox 3.6 has many core features such as sessions restore, built in spell checking, integrated search, pop-up blocker, clear private data and automated 'behind the scenes' updates.
The browser interface looks a lot like Firefox 3.5 but there are a few additional add on's that can make your Firefox browser look unique, especially the new Persona's.
The placement of the main navigation buttons has not changed, they are still on the left.
The Smart Location Bar was first introduced in Firefox 3. It is also known as the 'Awesome Bar'.
As you type in a URL, the Smart Location Bar searches through your history and bookmarks and presents a drop-down list of recently accessed pages with that same keyword. It works even if you already know the URL.
For searches across the entire Web, a box at the top right provides a shortcut to Google and a drop down menu listing 9 other sites, including Yahoo!, Live Search, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com and Wikipedia.
Firefox 3.6 also supports a built-in RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news reader to fetch updates from website's that publish their content using this standard. Firefox gives you full control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting you choose how you want to subscribe.
In the file menu click edit - find and a "Find" bar appears at the bottom of Firefox's window which lets you search for words on a page without blocking your view of the page itself.
As you type a query, the first matching item is highlighted in green. "Find Next" and "Find Previous" buttons jump to other matches, and the "Highlight" button paints all of them in purple.
Web addicts can customize Firefox3.6 with browser extensions that add functions, themes and persona's that alter the browsers look and feel. To customize Firefox even more type about:config into the address bar and you'll see hundreds of preferences to tweak! But be careful what you change as you could accidentally prevent Firefox from starting up.
The Download Manager lets you easily start, stop and resume downloads.
With greatly improved performance, really useful features and first class security Firefox 3.6 stands out as one of the best internet browser available today.
Firefox 3.6 is free to download and is available on a variety of operating systems : Windows, Mac and Linux. There are also a wide variety of localised language versions to choose from.
If you haven't already tried Firefox, what are you waiting for?
You can download Firefox 3.6 for free from this site or
from the Mozilla Website and see for yourself how good it really is!