Mark Best

Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1, codenamed Namoroka (after the Namoroka National Park in Madagascar), was released as a nightly download yesterday on the 7th August 2009.

This latest developer test version of the popular browser, based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform,  offers increased support for CSS3, most notably background-size, CSS gradients, multiple background images along with support for the rem unit from the CSS3 values and units module.

The alpha release also completed our CSS3 selectors test with no problems, passing 578 out of 578 tests, and faired better than it’s predecessor in the Acid 3 test, scoring 94/100 (compared to 91/100 for Firefox 3.5.2).

You can download Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 from the following link:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/namoroka/alpha1/

or the latest nightly build from here:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Update: Peter Gasston has put together a demo of some of these new features on his blog.