Next up for Mozilla is an update to 3.6 called Lorentz. Firefox now sits as the browser primarily used by over 30 percent of users worldwide, according to some recent estimates. Over the last couple of years Mozilla has been steadily nibbling on Microsoft market share, as Internet Explorer’s browsing share has slipped. With the release of Firefox 3.6, Mozilla looks to gain more ground on rival Microsoft. The new version feels slightly faster that Firefox 3.5, when using graphics heavy websites like Facebook or YouTube. In our internal testing, we’ve found the latest builds of Firefox 3.6 to be quite polished, eliminating the crashes we experienced in the first beta. The update also offers toolbar skins, out-of-date plugin notifications, and support for the WOFF open webfont format, among other things. It also offers a faster and more robust version of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.5 used Gecko 1.9.1). The new browser build improves the security of Mozilla’s popular extensions interface.
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