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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. [25] Firefox 3.6.7 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues. [26] Firefox 3.6.8 was a security update that was released a mere three days after 3.6.7, to fix another security fault. [27]
Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine. WebGL is enabled by default on Windows and Mac OS X. Certain rendering operations are now hardware-accelerated using Direct3D 9 on Windows XP, Direct3D 10 on Windows Vista and 7, and OpenGL on Mac OS X. Improved web typography using OpenType with support for ligatures, kerning and font variants.
Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser, first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks.
The last version of Firefox for Windows 7 and 8 is Firefox 115 ESR, which was released in July 2023. [179] Its end-of-life was initially planned to be in October 2024, [ 180 ] however in July 2024, a Mozilla employee announced in a comment on Reddit that the company consider extending the support beyond the initial date, the duration of that ...
Notes. In March 2014, the Windows Store app version of Firefox was cancelled, although there is a beta release. [23]SSE2 instruction set support is required for 49.0 or later for Windows and 53.0 or later for Linux, IA-32 support only applies to superscalar processors.
On March 26, 2011, Firefox 4's usage share exceeded that of the 10-year-old and discontinued Internet Explorer 6 for the first time. Also on that date, the browser's usage share was higher than all versions of Safari, Opera and older versions of Firefox with the exception of Firefox 3.6.
However, Firefox 3.5.12 was released on September 7, 2010 [41] and Mozilla continued shipping incremental stability and security fixes up to build 3.5.19, released on April 28, 2011. [42] With the release of Firefox 3.6.18 , Mozilla issued an update to move remaining Firefox 3.5 users to the new browser, [ 43 ] finally ending support for 3.5.
By default, Firefox downloads all files to a user's desktop on Mac and Windows or to the user's home directory on Linux, but it can be configured to prompt for a specific download location. Version 3.0 added support for cross-session resuming (stopping a download and resuming it after closing the browser).