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Mozilla Firefox 3.6

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Firefox 3.6 displaying Wikipedia on Ubuntu 10.04.

Developer(s) Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Foundation
Initial release January 21, 2010 (2010-01-21)
Stable release
3.6.28 [1](March 13, 2012; 6 years ago (2012-03-13))
Preview release None [±]

Development status End of life
Written in
C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript,[2]CSS[3]
Operating system
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
BSD
Solaris
OpenSolaris
Platform Cross-platform
Size 9.8 MB (Linux)
18.7 MB (Mac OS X)
8.2 MB (Windows)
(all archived)
Available in 75 languages
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.[4] In this version, support for X BitMap images was dropped.


This release marked the beginning of a new development cycle for Firefox. As well as receiving major updates, the browser also received minor updates with new features. This was to allow users to receive new features more quickly and the dawn of a new roadmap that reflected these changes.[5]


It was superseded by Firefox 4, released the next year, although FF 3.6 had a prolonged period of use and version 4 had noted user interface changes. Firefox 3.6 is the last major version of an official Firefox release to run on PowerPC-based Macintoshes (see TenFourFox for a much-more-recent version of Firefox for PowerPC-based computers running Mac OS X). 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 9 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 discontinued support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24, 2012 [6][7] with automatic update to Firefox 12 pushed out to compatible devices by June 2012.[8]




Contents






  • 1 Development


    • 1.1 Minor releases




  • 2 Features


  • 3 End of life


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Development


Development for this version started on December 1, 2008.[9] The first alpha of version 3.6 was released on August 7, 2009.[10] The first beta version was released on October 30,[11] followed by Beta 2 on November 10, Beta 3 on November 17, Beta 4 on November 26, and Beta 5 on December 17.[12] Release Candidate 1 was released on January 8, 2010, followed by Release Candidate 2 on January 17.[13] The final version was released on January 21, 2010.



Minor releases







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Market Share Overview
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Browser
 % of Fx
 % of Total

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 2
 — —

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 3.x
 0.41% 0.02%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 4
 0.41% 0.02%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 5–9
 — —

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 10–16
 — —

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 17–23
 — —

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 24–30
 — —

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 31–37
 0.20% 0.01%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 38–44
 1.42% 0.07%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 45–51
 4.27% 0.21%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 52–59
 10.16% 0.50%

Older version, yet still supported: Firefox 60
Firefox ESR 60
 3.66% 0.18%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 61
 1.63% 0.08%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 62
 4.07% 0.20%

Old version, no longer supported: Firefox 63
 68.09% 3.35%

Current stable version: Firefox 64
1.83% 0.09%

Future release: Firefox 65
 — —

All variants[15]
 100%
4.92%


Firefox 3.6.2 was released on March 23, 2010,[16] followed by version 3.6.3 on April 1[17] 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.[18] Betas of Firefox 3.6.4 were made available starting on April 20, 2010. Firefox 3.6.4 was released on June 22, 2010.[19][20] 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.[5][21] This significantly reduces the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games;[22] the user can simply refresh the page to continue. Mozilla states that 30% of browser crashes are caused by third-party plugins.[23]


Support for other plug-ins by default in OOPP and on the Mac OS X platform will become available in Firefox 4.[24]


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]


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.[28]


Firefox 3.6.10 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[29]


Firefox 3.6.11 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[30]


Firefox 3.6.12 was a security update that fixed a critical security issue.[31]


Firefox 3.6.13 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[32]


Firefox 3.6.14 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[33]


Firefox 3.6.15 was a stability update that fixed a Java applets issue.[34]


Firefox 3.6.16 was a security update that blacklisted a few invalid HTTPS certificates.[35]


Firefox 3.6.17 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[36]


Firefox 3.6.18 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[37]


Firefox 3.6.19 was a stability update that fixed several issues.[38]


Firefox 3.6.20 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[39]


Firefox 3.6.21 was a security update that blacklisted a compromised HTTPS certificate.[40]


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.[41]


Firefox 3.6.23 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[42]


Firefox 3.6.24 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[43]


Firefox 3.6.25 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[44]


Firefox 3.6.26 was a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[45]


Firefox 3.6.27 was a security update that fixed several issues.[46]


Firefox 3.6.28 is a security and stability update that fixed several issues.[47]



Features














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Contents



  • History of Firefox


    • v1 • v1.5

    • v2


    • v3 • v3.5 • v3.6

    • v4

    • v5 and later



  • Features of Firefox

  • Gecko

  • Add-ons

  • Extensions

  • Firefox market adoption

Origins and lineage


  • Netscape Navigator

  • Mozilla Foundation

  • Mozilla Suite

Category

  • v

  • t

  • e


New features for Firefox 3.6 include



  • Built-in support for Personas (browser Graphical user interface themes)

  • Check and notification of out-of-date plugins[48]

  • Full screen playback of Theora video

  • Support for the WOFF open webfont format[49]

  • Plug-in directory lock down: Plugins may only to be installed using a .xpi file, not through mere copying to the Firefox plugin directory. This breaks older plugins such as the Java Runtime Environment before 6 Update 15,.[50] net framework before 1.2.

  • Many performance improvements[12]



End of life


Mozilla discontinued support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24, 2012,[6][7] which at over 27 months of support made it the longest supported version of Firefox, even longer than Firefox 2 which had over 26 months of total support itself. The underlying Gecko 1.9.2 engine continued to be used, with updates, in Camino.



See also


  • History of Firefox


A crashed Adobe Flash plugin



References





  1. ^ https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-US/firefox/3.6.28/releasenotes/


  2. ^ Firefox Extension Development Tutorial Archived August 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.


  3. ^ Firefox 3′s Internal Rendering CSS


  4. ^ "Firefox/Namoroka". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 2009-06-24..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  5. ^ ab "Firefox 3.6 due this month; next comes 'Lorentz'". CNET. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-01-17.


  6. ^ ab Upcoming Firefox Support Changes, March 23rd, 2012


  7. ^ ab "Extended Support Proposal". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 2011-11-09.


  8. ^ "Firefox 3.6 will automatically update to Firefox 12". Mozilla Support. Retrieved 2012-06-07.


  9. ^ Alfred Kayser (2008-12-01), First step to Firefox 3.2: Alpha 1 is here, Mozilla Links, retrieved 2008-12-01


  10. ^ "Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 now available for download". Mozilla Developer Center. 2009-08-07. Retrieved 2009-08-07.


  11. ^ "Firefox Delivery Meetings 2009-11-04 - MozillaWiki". Mozilla. 2009-11-04. Retrieved 2009-11-05.


  12. ^ ab "Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 Release Notes". Mozilla.com. 2009-12-17. Retrieved 2010-01-05.


  13. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2010-01-16.


  14. ^ "Top 12 Browser Versions on Nov 2018". StatCounter Global Stats.


  15. ^ "Top 9 Browsers on Nov 2018". StatCounter Global Stats.


  16. ^ "Firefox 3.6 Release Notes". Mozilla Foundation. 22 March 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.


  17. ^ "Firefox 3.6 Release Notes". Mozilla Foundation. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.


  18. ^ "Firefox 3.6.4 beta available for download and testing". Mozilla. 2010-04-20. Retrieved 2010-05-10.


  19. ^ Tristan (2010-05-21). "Frogs, stability and performance". Retrieved 2010-05-21.


  20. ^ "Firefox 3.6 Release Notes". Mozilla Foundation. 22 June 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.


  21. ^ Chrome gets updated, Firefox 'Lorentz' enters beta


  22. ^ Beltzner, Mike. "Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available :: The Mozilla Blog". Blog.mozilla.com. Retrieved 2010-11-09.


  23. ^ "Plugin Checker Launched " Mozilla Webdev". Blog.mozilla.com. 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2010-11-09.


  24. ^ "Firefox/Crash Protection - MozillaWiki". Wiki.mozilla.org. 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2010-11-09.


  25. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.6 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-06-26.


  26. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-07-20.


  27. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-07-20.


  28. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-09-07.


  29. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.10 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-09-15.


  30. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.11 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-10-19.


  31. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-10-27.


  32. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2010-12-09.


  33. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-03-01.


  34. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.15 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-03-04. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14.


  35. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.16 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-03-22.


  36. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.17 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-04-28.


  37. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.18 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-06-21.


  38. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.19 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-07-11.


  39. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.20 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-08-16.


  40. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.21 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-08-31.


  41. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.22 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-09-07.


  42. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.23 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-09-27.


  43. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.24 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-11-08.


  44. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.25 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2011-12-20.


  45. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.26 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2012-01-31.


  46. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.27 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2012-02-17.


  47. ^ "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.28 Release Notes". Mozilla. 2012-03-13.


  48. ^ The check is performed not inside add-ons window (as if usual add-ons), but on the Mozilla site though.


  49. ^ Blizzard, Christopher (2009-10-20). "Web Open Font Format for Firefox 3.6". Hacks.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2009-12-19.


  50. ^ "Using the Java plugin with Firefox". Support.mozilla.com. Retrieved 2010-11-09.




External links



  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Release Notes

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.28 Download link (FTP)


  • Mozilla.com, Mozilla Firefox homepage for end-users


  • Mozilla.org, Mozilla Firefox project page for developers


  • Mozilla.com, Mozilla EULA


  • Nightly.Mozilla.org, Firefox latest builds












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