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Firefox 3.6
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 Firefox 3.6 displaying Wikipedia on Ubuntu 10.04. | |
| Developer(s) | Mozilla Corporation Mozilla Foundation |
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| Initial release | January 21, 2010 |
| Final release | 3.6.28 [1] (March 13, 2012)
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| Preview release | None [±] |
| Written in | C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript,[2] CSS[3] |
| Engine | Gecko |
| Operating system | Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Solaris OpenSolaris |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Size | 9.8 MB (Linux) 18.7 MB (Mac OS X) 8.2 MB (Windows) (all archived) |
| Available in | 75 languages |
| Type | Web browser FTP client Gopher client |
| License | MPL/GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/about:rights |
| Website | www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.6 |
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 is a version of the Firefox web browser released in January 2010. The release's main improvement over Firefox 3.5 is improved performance (due to further speed improvements in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine). It uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine (compared to 1.9.1 in Fx 3.5), which improves compliance with web standards. It was codenamed Namoroka.[4] In this version, support for X BitMap images was dropped.
This release marked the beginning of a new development cycle for Firefox. As well as receiving major updates, the browser also received minor updates with new features. This was to allow users to receive new features more quickly and the dawn of a new roadmap that reflected these changes.[5]
It was superseded by Firefox 4, released the next year, although Fx 3.6 had a prolonged period of use and version 4 had noted user interface changes. Firefox 3.6 is the last major version of an official Firefox release to run on PowerPC-based Macintoshes (see TenFourFox for a much-more-recent version of Firefox for PowerPC-based computers running Mac OS X). Soon after 4, much less weight was given to major version numbers, with 6 numbers used by September of that year (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) compared to 3 in nearly a decade of Firefox development (1, 2 and 3).
Firefox versions 4 through 9 had all reached end-of-life status while Mozilla continued supporting Firefox 3.6 with security updates. Coinciding with a proposal to cater to Enterprise users with optional Extended Support Releases beginning in 2012 based upon Firefox 10, Mozilla discontinued support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24, 2012 [6][7] with automatic update to Firefox 12 pushed out to compatible devices by June 2012.[8]
- ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.28 Release Notes". website-archive.mozilla.org.
- ^ Inc, Rietta. "Rietta". Rietta. Archived from the original on August 4, 2009.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Walsh, David (July 10, 2008). "Firefox 3's Internal Rendering CSS".
- ^ "Firefox/Namoroka". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Lorentzwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Upcoming Firefox Support Changes, March 23rd, 2012
- ^ "Extended Support Proposal". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
- ^ "Firefox 3.6 will automatically update to Firefox 12". Mozilla Support. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
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