3.6 is currently not compatible with noscript - you sacrifice security and clean look of pages (annoying flash/crap/mouseoverware is the first thing you notice). otherwise i did not notice any major improvements (not an in depth test)

The Inq has been using terms like this for ages, since at least 2004 when I started reading if I'm correct.

You obviously don't read the Inquirer very often. The Vole, Open Sauce, Fruit Themed Toy Maker, etc. are not typos, they're slang.

I was hoping this "Persona" thing was a replacement for those terrible "profiles" that Firefox inherited from Netscape's crappy browser profile paradigm. It really sucks that I have to kill the Firefox process from a terminal in order to use it from a remote session when I've forgotten to close it on the local one.

Don, good catch!

Sorry but that is one of the funnier typos that I seen around here...

"MOZILLA HAS LAUNCHED the first beta version of its open sauce Firefox 3.6 browser."

Love it

Frank,

Persona's have been "Available" as a plug-in/add-on...NOT implemented into the release. It's no longer an add-on, and is part of the web browser. DL the beta and take a look.

persona's have been implemented since at least 3.5 if not earlier. I read you guys religiously and just wanted you to know. Thank you again for such a great site.

Have you tried firefox preloader?

I almost don't care about how fast javascript runs when the startup times are so lousy. Fast javascript matters occasionally, fast startup times matter every time I reboot. I find javascript performance in IE to be fine and I know it's something like 10x slower than ff. But IE sure starts up fast :-) (of course half of it is probably always running even when ie isn't)