Download Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1

Version 5.0 of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is less than three weeks old and the first beta release of version 6.0 has already appeared. Version 6.0, which of course should have been renamed version 4.2, just like version 5.0 does not make a big leap forward, as we saw with version 4.0 compared to 3.6 at the time. That is also not possible, because the development time is much shorter. One of the new features is a scratchpad, a window in which javascript code can be tested. Furthermore, the html5 support has been improved and we see the return of the Websockets protocol. Below is an overview of the most important improvements that we can expect in version 6.0.

The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:

• The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you’re visiting
• Streamlined the look of the site identity block
• Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
• Added support for EventSource / server sent events
• Added support for window.matchMedia
• Added scratch padan interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
• Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
• Improved usability of the Web Console
• Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
• Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version.

The following downloads are available:
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 beta 1 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 beta 1 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X (English)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X (English)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Windows (Frisian)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Linux (Frisian)
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X (Frisian)

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 screenshot. Click on the image for a larger version.