Published On: Tue, Aug 16th, 2011

Firefox 6 Released

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 6.0, so, what can you expect Firefox 6 to bring?

  • The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you’re visiting
  • Streamlined the look of the site identity block
  • Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
  • Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
  • Added support for window.matchMedia
  • Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
  • Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
  • Improved usability of the Web Console
  • Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
  • Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
  • Fixed several stability issues
  • Fixed several security issues

To download the Firefox 6, please click here

If you want to wait for Firefox 7 or 8, let me tell you the schedule: Mozilla is on its fast-release schedule and has slotted the release of Firefox 7 for September 27, Firefox 8 for November 8 and Firefox 9 for December 20th.

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