The output of Firefox 3.6, scheduled for the end of the year, was postponed until a later date. Under the new "roadmap" announced by Mozilla, however, this should happen during the first quarter of 2010. The exchange program has caused a revolution inevitalmente plans for the launch of the next opensource versions of the browser. In particular, Firefox 4.0 is now expected by the end of next year or by early 2011. Also known by the codename "Namaroka, Firefox 3.6 will introduce the ability to apply themes to change the light program interface (" Personas "), the asynchronous execution of JavaScript in order to speed up the loading pages, will mark the launch of "official" mechanism which aims to alert the user should be recognized when outdated versions of one or more plugins. The new version of Firefox also will open up sources of support for character WOFF ("Open Font Web Format ") and new technologies related to HTML5, DOM and style sheets.
The fourth version of Firefox, however, is expected to take over a major innovation, aimed at drastically improving the stability of the browser. By integrating the code developed within the project "Electolysis Mozilla, Firefox 4.0 should implement a model that involves the separation of the GUI, the contents of web pages and plug-in. Each web page will work within a process so that their should not be any problem to impact negatively on the stability of the entire application. The approach was first introduced by Google in its Chrome browser.
Firefox 4.0 will be designed to respond effectively to the movement "multi-touch made with the fingers on touch screens, will allow you to synchronize bookmarks and settings of the program with Weave extension that aims to move data in-the-cloud" storage server and making them accessible from any remote location. The new "major release" of Firefox should also incorporate "Jetpack", a mechanism that allows you to create extensions for the browser simply by using HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
(source: IlSoftware.it)
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