Firefox 6 shows 'progress'

Mozilla developers are pushing forward on Firefox 6. 

That's right - Firefox 6 - and no that's not a typo.  As part of the Mozilla rapid release mantra, Mozilla has Firefox 5 in its beta channel and now has Firefox 6 in the Aurora channel.

The key new item highlight by Mozilla in Firefox 6 is the inclusion of the progress element. We've all seen progress bars for software that is loading and there are all kinds of ways of achieving that affect.

Now Mozilla is baking in one way with .

"This element can be used to give a visual cue of something in progress in the page," Mozilla stated in a post describing Aurora 6. 

Another key area where Firefox 6 will progress is in the area of Flash security. Starting with Firefox 6, Adobe Flash Cookies will be cleared out when clearing out cookies from the browser. That's a big deal and one that will make Firefox 6 much safer. Google Chrome directly integrates Flash Player and can already do the same thing.

In terms of speed and network performance, Firefox 6 includes something called, Accelerated Connection Retry for HTTP. No this is not a Mozilla implementation of Google's SPDY. It's a feature that was supposed to land in Firefox 4 (though I don't recall when or why it was pulled). The accelerated connection is essentially a prefetched TCP connection which should make Firefox 6 faster.

Since Firefox 6 is still technically called Aurora at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if another feature (or two) lands in it before it gets branched off to become Firefox 6 Beta sometime in June. 

 

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