"Meet the World's Best Browser," announced Mozilla on the Firefox 3.6 download page, just days after the world saw release candidate 2 of Firefox 3.6 for the first time. Among other features, the new browser sports support for new CSS attributes, adds new DOM and HTML 5 specifications and full-screen video.

According to the director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner, the JavaScript performance has been improved, and is now faster by about 12 percent. Browser performance is clearly something that the team has worked hard on; compared to Firefox 3.5, pages can load up to 20 percent faster. In addition, overall tweaks and the implementation of asynchronous script loading also means that the Firefox experience should feel snappier overall.

From a security point of view, the most important feature is probably its new built-in protection against out-of-date plugins. Users are warned if an outdated plugin is found, and prompted to install relevant patches with just a mouse click. Together with another enhancement designed to stop software vendors from silently installing Firefox add-ons, the new browser is solidly set as a must-have upgrade.

For more on this story:
- check out the article at Computerworld
- check out the official release notes

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