Information Madness

Firefox 6 has been officially released by Mozilla. There was a lot of buzz few days back made by tech sites that came out with the announcement of Mozilla making available the code for Firefox 6 from its File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers. This is a routine procedure pre-release. The truth of the matter is that Firefox 6 has come hot on the heels of its previous version in a matter of just two months. It is going to include only those updates that have occurred in the two months’ time schedule.

In the days past, a new Firefox version meant that you could expect almost a completely new browser. Now, people have to get used to lot less features with each upgraded version. But even in these two months, it has a changed log of over a thousand fixes. One of the prominent ones is the URL highlighting. Like Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 6 shows the domain names in a darker font than the rest of the page. The other visual change is in the `site identity block’ which is an area left of the web page address that shows that it is secure.

There is a site specific privacy feature which can be accessed by typing `about: permission’ in the address bar and it allows the users to specify those sites that are permitted to keep passwords, get access to their locations, setting up of cookies, opening popups and maintaining permanent storage.

The users are able to benefit from Firefox 6’s updates like Firefox Sync that allows syncing of bookmarks, history and passwords. The `Panorama’ tab groups also should see speedier start-up for the browser. Firefox 6 is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.