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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download. The new version of Firefox called Namoroka was released last week. It’s based on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, that contains many improvements for users and web developers. For most of the users Firefox 3.6 will look a lot like version 3.5, but developers promise faster performance including better session restore, less time taken for startup, improved page rendering and faster javascript handling. Mozilla have also added the ability to create, save and restore tabs as well as searching for an existing tab by typing in the name of that tab in order to switch to it. Here is the time to mention the new tab-switching feature, which allows you to see preview of each page into the browser. A very interesting feature in the new firefox is support of accelerometers. It allows the people with such hardware in ther mobile devices to change the orientation of the page according the orientation of their device.

Here are some of the new enhancements:

• Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.

• Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
• Support for the WOFF font format.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
• Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

You can grab a copy of the new Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for the PC, MAC or Linux on the Mozilla Web site.