Mozilla has released beta 1 of Firefox 3.6 which is expected in the first quarter of 2010. Firefox 3.6 is based on more advanced page rendering engine called Gecko 1.9.2.

According to Firefox team the following new additions are the part of Firefox 3.6 beta 1 as:

• Users are allowed to change the browser’s appearance just with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
• It’ll alert users about out of date plug-ins to keep them safe
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames
• Support for the WOFF font format
• Faster execution of Web-based JavaScript programs
• Improved browser’s responsiveness and startup time
• Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies
• Drag & drop files ability from the computer to the browser window

Mozilla has published full detail of changes included in Firefox 3.6 beta1 for developers so they can read those here. Right now Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is available for download though this is not a stable version of browser but if you like to try this then download and install it and write us in comments what you fell about this new Firefox release.

Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1