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| Developer(s) | Mozilla Corporation Mozilla Foundation |
| Initial release | January 21, 2010 |
| Stable release | 3.6.25 (December 20, 2011) [+/−] |
| Preview release | [+/−] |
| Written in | C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript,[1] CSS[2] |
| Operating system | Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Solaris OpenSolaris |
| Engine | Gecko |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Size | 9.8 MB (Linux) 18.7 MB (Mac OS X) 8.2 MB (Windows) (all archived) |
| Available in | 75 languages |
| Development status | Active |
| 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 FF 3.5), which improves compliance with web standards. It was codenamed Namoroka.[3]
This release marks the beginning of a new development cycle for Firefox. As well as receiving major updates, the browser will also receive minor updates with new features. This is to allow users to receive new features more quickly. This new development approach means that Mozilla's product road map will also be updated. Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox, and Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, hope to release a new roadmap that reflects the changes.[4]
It was superseded by Firefox 4, released the next year, although FF 3.6 had a prolonged period of use and version 4 had noted user interface changes. 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 8 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 has tentative plans to discontinue support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24, 2012.[5]
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Development for this version started on December 1, 2008.[6] The first alpha of version 3.6 was released on August 7, 2009.[7] The first beta version was released on October 30,[8] followed by Beta 2 on November 10, Beta 3 on November 17, Beta 4 on November 26, and Beta 5 on December 17.[9] Release Candidate 1 was released on January 8, 2010, followed by Release Candidate 2 on January 17.[10] The final version was released on January 21, 2010.
market share overview According to StatCounter data November 2011[11] |
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| Browser | % of Fx | % of Total |
| Firefox 1 | -- | -- |
| Firefox 1.5 | -- | -- |
| Firefox 2 | 0.39% | 0.1% |
| Firefox 3 | 1.97% | 0.5% |
| Firefox 3.5 | 3.16% | 0.8% |
| Firefox 3.6 | 22.31% | 5.64% |
| Firefox 4 | 2.37% | 0.6% |
| Firefox 5 | 3.96% | 1% |
| Firefox 6 | 5.26% | 1.33% |
| Firefox 7 | 36% | 9.1% |
| Firefox 8 | 24.37% | 6.16% |
| Other[FF 1] | 0.03% | 0.01% |
| All variants[12] | 100.00% | 25.28% |
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Firefox 3.6.2 was released on March 23, 2010,[13] followed by version 3.6.3 on April 1[14] which closed some bugs in the ASLR and DEP handling found at the Pwn2Own contest 2010.
The Firefox developers created a new feature called Lorentz. It is named after the Lorentz National Park. A preview version of Lorentz, Firefox 3.6.3plugin1, was made available on April 8, 2010.[15] Betas of Firefox 3.6.4 were made available starting on April 20, 2010. Firefox 3.6.4 was released on June 22, 2010.[16][17] The Windows and Linux versions incorporate out-of-process plug-ins (OOPP), which isolates execution of plug-ins (Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight by default) into a separate process.[4][18] This significantly reduces the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games;[19] the user can simply refresh the page to continue. Mozilla states that 30% of browser crashes are caused by third-party plugins.[20]
Support for other plug-ins by default in OOPP and on the Mac OS X platform will become available in Firefox 4.[21]
Firefox 3.6.6 lengthens the amount of time a plug-in is allowed to be unresponsive to the point before the plug-in quits.[22]
Firefox 3.6.7 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[23]
Firefox 3.6.8 was a security update that was released a mere three days after 3.6.7, to fix another security fault.[24]
Firefox 3.6.9, in addition to fixing security and stability issues, introduced support for the X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP response header to help prevent clickjacking.[25]
Firefox 3.6.10 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[26]
Firefox 3.6.11 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[27]
Firefox 3.6.12 was a security update that fixed a critical security issue.[28]
Firefox 3.6.13 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[29]
Firefox 3.6.14 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[30]
Firefox 3.6.15 was a stability update that fixed a Java applets issue.[31]
Firefox 3.6.16 was a security update that blacklisted a few invalid HTTPS certificates.[32]
Firefox 3.6.17 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[33]
Firefox 3.6.18 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[34]
Firefox 3.6.19 was a stability update that fixed several issues.[35]
Firefox 3.6.20 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[36]
Firefox 3.6.21 was a security update that blacklisted a compromised HTTPS certificate.[37]
Firefox 3.6.22 was a security update that revoked the SSL certificates for "Staten der Nederlanden" due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance, as well as fixing an error with .gov.uk domain names.[38]
Firefox 3.6.23 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[39]
Firefox 3.6.24 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues. [40]
Firefox 3.6.25 is a security and stability update that fixed several issues. [41]
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