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Firefox 3.6

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6
Developer(s)Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Foundation
Initial releaseJanuary 21, 2010(2010-01-21)
Final release
3.6.28[1](March 13, 2012;12 years ago(2012-03-13))
Preview releaseNone[±]
Written inC++,XUL,XBL,JavaScript,[2]CSS[3]
EngineGecko
Operating systemWindows
Mac OS X
Linux
BSD
Solaris
OpenSolaris
PlatformCross-platform
Size9.8 MB(Linux)
18.7 MB(Mac OS X)
8.2 MB(Windows)
(allarchived)
Available in75 languages
TypeWeb browser
FTP client
Gopher client
LicenseMPL/GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/about:rights
Websitemozilla /firefox/3.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.6is a version of theFirefoxweb browserreleased in January 2010. The release's main improvement overFirefox 3.5is improved performance (due to further speed improvements in theTraceMonkeyJavaScriptengine). It uses theGecko1.9.2 engine (compared to 1.9.1 in Fx 3.5), which improves compliance withweb standards.It was codenamedNamoroka.[4]In this version, support forX BitMapimages was dropped.

This release marked the beginning of a newdevelopment cyclefor 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It was superseded byFirefox 4,released the next year, although Fx 3.6 had a prolonged period of use and version 4 had noted user interface changes.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 onPowerPC-basedMacintoshes(seeTenFourFoxfor a much-more-recent version of Firefox forPowerPC-based computers runningMac 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 toFirefox 12pushed out to compatible devices by June 2012.[8]

Development

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Development for this version started on December 1, 2008.[9]The firstAlphaof 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
According to StatCounter data
July 2024[14]
This box:
Browser % ofFx % of total
Firefox 1 — —
Firefox 2 — —
Firefox 3 — —
Firefox 4 — —
Firefox 5–9 — —
Firefox 10–16 0.73% 0.02%
Firefox 17–23 — —
Firefox 24–30 — —
Firefox 31–37 — —
Firefox 38–44 — —
Firefox 45–51 — —
Firefox 52–59 2.19% 0.06%
Firefox 60–67 — —
Firefox 68–77 — —
Firefox 78–90 0.37% 0.01%
Firefox 91–101 — —
Firefox 102–114 — —
Firefox 115 and 115 ESR 13.14% 0.36%
Firefox 116 — —
Firefox 117 — —
Firefox 118 2.56% 0.07%
Firefox 119 — —
Firefox 120 0.37% 0.01%
Firefox 121 0.37% 0.01%
Firefox 122 — —
Firefox 123 1.10% 0.03%
Firefox 124 0.37% 0.01%
Firefox 125 0.73% 0.02%
Firefox 126 2.19% 0.06%
Firefox 127 25.55% 0.70%
Firefox 128 and 128 ESR 40.15% 1.10%
Firefox 129 — —
All variants[15] 100% 2.74%

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 theASLRandDEPhandling found at thePwn2Owncontest 2010.

The Firefox developers created a new feature calledLorentz.It is named after theLorentz 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 became 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 fi xing security and stability issues, introduced support for theX-FRAME-OPTIONSHTTP response header to help preventclickjacking.[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 fraudulentSSL certificateissuance, as well as fi xing 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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Origins and lineage
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New features for Firefox 3.6 include

  • Built-in support forPersonas(browserGraphical user interfacethemes)
  • Check and notification of out-of-date plugins[48]
  • Full-screen playback ofTheoravideo
  • Support for theWOFFopen web font 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

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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 thanFirefox 2which had over 26 months of total support itself. The underlying Gecko 1.9.2 engine continued to be used, with updates, inCamino.

See also

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References

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