Firefox 6.0 Highlights

A colleague just asked “What’s new with Firefox 6?  I mean, what’s changed in just two months?”  (he almost sounded miffed)

So I thought I’d list  and link some of the highlights from the release notes – and yes, I DO agree it is worthy of the major point release:

1. Tremendous “under the hood” enhancements increasing speed by an average of 20%
2. Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
3. Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
4. Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
5. Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
6. Added support for window.matchMedia
7. Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
8. Fixed or enhanced several security issues, including:
• The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you’re visiting
• Streamlined the look of the site identity block
9. Resolved many stability issues
10. Improved usability of the Web Console
11. Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it