Mozilla Unleashes a Rather Disappointing Firefox 3.6.4 RC
Mozilla has just published the first (and possibly last) release candidate build of its final major update of the 3.6 generation of its Firefox web browser. Version 3.6.4b6 is officially described as the RC preceding the final released and integrates out of process plug-ins as well as OpenGL 2 hardware acceleration for full screen videos, but its JavaScript engine is notably slower than the integration in the preceding preview. Mozilla has also begun to provide more detail on Firefox 4.
If the current JavaScript slowdown is not just a hiccup in this RC release, it is probably good news for Mozilla that Firefox 3.6.4 bridges the transition to Firefox 4 and is not the browser that will compete against Microsoft’s upcoming IE9 and Google’s Chrome 5/6. In the end, it appears, that 3.6.4, which originally was intended to turn into Firefox 3.7, is not the big upgrade we were expecting a while ago.
The main new features in 3.6.4 are out of process plug-ins (formerly called Lorentz project) as well as hardware acceleration, as well as some minor performance improvements.
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