Later than expected, but as promised the first release candidate of the (minor) upgrade for Firefox is here. This release should be at an almost golden state, meaning that perhaps another build may role out, perhaps not if it's stable enough.

Compared to beta 5 there have been 70 bugs fixed alone, still showing a large number of polishing that has happened. All in all this should result in one of the most stable releases of Firefox yet!

If you've forgotten, Firefox 3.6 may sound minor, but does contain some major alterations all things considered. Such changes are how add-ons are handled, making Firefox safer and less crash prawn if they behave badly. But also the ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times, built-in Personas extension (for simple skinning), plug-in version detection and notification, WOFF font format, support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies, improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and start-up time.

Although not intended yet for the common end-user, this release candidate is of such quality that it can be safely used, give or take a little bug or so. Be sure to check and report any issues you may find, so the folks at Mozilla can make this their best release yet!