New in v3.6.x: Built on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, v3.6 adds speed improvements to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, Compositor (Phase 1) (moves Gecko to using one native widget per top-level content document), a new focus model, several new CSS3 properties including background size and gradients for background images, and startup and responsiveness improvements throughout the application; Release Notes - Last Updated: 03.18.10 (v3.6 / v3.7 Alpha 3)
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New in v3.5.x: Several stability and security issues fixed (v3.5.7); several security and stability issues fixed, including 3 critical security vulnerabilities (v3.5.4); Private Browsing Mode, TraceMonkey JavaScript engine for better performance and stability, support for the HTML 5 video and audio elements (with native support for Ogg Theora encode video and Vorbis encoded audio), Location Aware Browsing, initial support for Web worker threads, support for native JSON, ability to drag and drop tabs between browser windows, new selector to create areas of Aero-style "glass" in XUL, performance improvements and new preference values for color management profile support, support for new Web technologies (including downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, canvas text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms; Release Notes - Last Updated: 01.05.10 (v3.5.7)
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New in 3.0.x: New security and stability fixes (four critical) (v3.0.13); nine new security fixes (one critical) (v3.0.9); two new security fixes (v3.0.8); new security patches and fixes for a variety of stability issues (v3.0.5); fixed a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords (v3.0.3); new language editions (Sinhala, Slovene officially, and beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telegu, and Thai), new Extended Validation (EV) roots added (v3.0.2); Release Notes - Last Updated: 08.03.09 (v3.0.13)
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New in Bon Echo Alpha 3: Built-in Anti-Phishing protection, support for client-side session and persistent storage, search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google and Yahoo! (Alpha 3); links default to opening in new tabs (not new windows), inline spell checking in text boxes, close buttons now appear on every tab, automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash, search suggestions now appear in the search box autocomplete for Google and Yahoo! (Alpha 2); new search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines, improved support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds, new microsummaries feature for bookmarks, new Add-Ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, new search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines; various bug fixes; Release Notes for Alpha 3 - Last Updated: 05.30.06
New in Bon Echo Alpha 1: Changes to tabbed browsing behavior, new data storage layer for bookmarks and history (using SQLlite), extended search plugin format, updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions, support for SVG text using svg:textPath, various bug fixes; Release Notes - Last Updated: 11.20.07 (v3.0 Beta 1)
New in Deer Park Alpha 2: Software update system to streamline product upgrades (currently disabled– will be turned on shortly for testing), faster browser navigation (improved back and forward button performance), drag-and-drop reordering for browser tabs, improvements to popup blocking, better support for Mac OS X (Safari profile migrator, Aqua compliancem, and shell service), several security enhancements; Release Notes for Alpha 2 - Last Updated: 07.13.05
New in Deer Park Alpha 1 (vs. Mozilla Firefox v1.0.x): "Sanitize" feature (quick and easy way to remove browsing history, cookies, cache, saved form information, and other personal data), image thumbnails as tab icons, fast back/forward feature,
scalable vector graphics format (SVG) support (technology preview), XForms support, ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Mozilla JavaScript engine support, various other Web Developer enhancements, searchable download actions manager and cookies manager, @-moz-document rule (gives users the ability to match page objects per-site, using CSS), report a broken Website wizard, Release Notes for Alpha 1 - Last Updated: 06.11.05 Pros:
