Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
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Par Remi le vendredi 6 novembre 2009, 21:57 - Archives - Lien permanent
RPM of the first Beta of next major version of Mozilla Foundation browser is available in remi repository for Fedora 11 and 12.
The firefox36-3.6-0.1.beta1 package install this new version besides the version 3.5. So you will have 2 entries in the Internet menu.
WARNING : a backup of your profile (.mozilla/firefox directory) seems mandatory.
Start by reading :
As always :
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox36
No xulrunner update, this RPM provides his bundled Gecko engine.
Actually the some extensions are not compatibles and will be disabled.
I start to test the new features and I expect yours feedbacks.
A first SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark reveal a 20% performance improvment in 64bits.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.2b1) Gecko/20091106 Remi/fc12 Firefox/3.6b1
Total: 2397.0ms +/- 3.0%
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 Remi/fc12 Firefox/3.5.5
Total: 3031.2ms +/- 1.5%
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Archived entry, see Firefox 3.6 Beta 2