Some users were disappointed with the release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Aftermonths of betas, release candidates and previews, the new features weren't asspectacular as people expected. However, there is only so much you can do toimprove a web browser.

With the release of Mozilla Firefox 3, Mozilla decided to work hard onspeeding up the rendering engine, so the web graphics has received a completelynew upgrade. Dubbed ? Cairo', the new graphics rendering engine should improvethe output across different platforms, as it's being developed as anopen-standard.

With other improvements in the way that pages are ?painted' on screen,improved SVG support and CSS enhancements, the general improvements for Firefox3.0 are based around the way it will render web pages through the browser. Thenew browser also ships with a new user-interface, improved bookmarks and manyother new features.

The latest v3.6 release ships with a number of new features includingimproved performance, security and stability.