Firefox 6 breaks out sooner than schedule, gets official August 16th

It looks as if the sly fox is able to make its worldwide debut a couple of days early. In typical Mozilla fashion , an entire build of Firefox 6 is now unofficially available to your downloading pleasure, three days just before schedule. In case you are in search of a significant facelift to the desktop edition, you will not find one here — many of the new features aren’t cosmetic. Perhaps most visibly, you will find the domain name of the page you’re parked on highlighted within the address bar. At the Android side, version 6 makes much bigger promises, like a “fresh visual style in Chrome Gingerbread,” enhanced image scaling, and, perhaps most significantly, it’s “faster and uses less memory.” We’ve downloaded the desktop version of the browser ourselves, and we’ve found the discharge quite snappy. In case you are not terrified of a bit of pre-release downloading, you may catch the (desktop) fox on the source links below. And as per usual, please tell us how it’s treating you.

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