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The Illustrated Guide To The New Firefox 3.6 Windows 7 Integration

8:00AM The How-To Geek | The latest Firefox beta integrates much more fully into Windows 7, adding support for Aero Peek-enabled tabs, an enhanced Ctrl+Tab, and more. We’ll show you how they work, and how to enable or disable them. More »
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Firefox 3.6 Alpha Adds Tab Previews, Boosts Startup Time

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: Lovers of bleeding-edge browsers, rejoice: the first alpha of Firefox 3.6, code-named Namoroka, is available for download. Grab it to check out JavaScript improvements, startup time speed-ups, visual tab previews and behaviour tweaks, and other changes. More »
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Firefox Director Talks Firefox 3.6, Tasks, And Competing With Chrome

10:00AM Kevin Purdy | We were eager to know what’s happening for Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the open-source browser’s director, was glad to tell us. Here’s what he had to say about future features, competition with Chrome, and keeping thousands of Firefox contributors in sync. More »
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Keep Firefox Open When Closing The Last Tab

6:00AM The How-To Geek | The new Firefox 3.5 release brought a lot of great features, but one annoyance sent reader Mark looking for a solution: When you close the last tab, the browser closes instead of opening a blank tab. More »
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Firefox 3.5 Portable Available For Download

1:35AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Firefox lovers have no doubt already updated to the recently released Firefox 3.5 for its amazing new features, but if you’re more the portable type, Firefox 3.5 Portable Edition is officially available for download. More »
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Firefox 3.6 Will Focus On Desktop Web Apps, Speed, And No-Restart Extension Installation

5:30AM Adam Pash | Firefox 3.5 isn’t set to release until June, but that doesn’t mean Mozilla isn’t already looking ahead to the next release. Weblog Mozilla Links reports that Firefox 3.6 is already in the works, and the developers are focusing on performance, extension installation that doesn’t require a restart (god-send!), improved file-uploading (à la the Dragdropupload extension), and an option to convert web applications to desktop apps. We’ve seen the last feature in Google Chrome, and the functionality has been available for some time via Prism, but integration seems like a good idea if they want to keep up with the Chromeses. Got any features you’d kill to see in Firefox 3.6? Let’s hear it in the comments.