I just installed Firefox 3.6., which was released today. There are some new features which include:
- Personas – A new type of theming,
- Stability improvements,
- Performance improvements,
- Open video and audio based on HTML 5.
I can only comment on two of these. I could not get any selected persona to work. I believe my current theme is conflicting with this new feature. I don’t really care as this isn’t something that really improves the Firefox experience, IMO. However, I have seen a significant memory gain. Before I upgraded I had three tabs open, running at 277 MB. After reinstall with the same three tabs I had 77 MB, which shot up to and stayed at around 150 MB after some page changes, etc. I would say that that is a significant improvement. Better memory usage by Firefox means my whole system runs faster because I have more RAM free. I almost always have Firefox open since my primary job responsibility is developing applications that run in a web browser (Silverlight, ASP.Net). At home Firefox is my browser of choice. It is more features and has a bigger plugin ecosystem than Chrome, and is much more secure and must faster than IE.
I recommend downloading Firefox 3.6 today.
