Mozilla releases full version of Firefox 3.6

The full version comes less than two weeks after Mozilla made Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) available. The release candidate followed a run of betas that started in early November and featured nearly 100 bug fixes from the fifth beta that Mozilla issued December 17.

While the final version of Firefox 3.6 is not as big of an update as the more ambitious Firefox 3.5, it includes a number of under-the-hood improvements, and a handful of changes that you might discover as you use it. Here are some of the most notable improvements.

Firefox 3.6 can now detect whether any of your installed browser plugins (Flash, etc...) are out of date. This is important because cyber-criminals often use bugs in outdated versions of some browser plugins - particularly Flash and QuickTime - to attack your PC and potentially install malware that can be used to steal your personal information, or turn your PC into a spam bot.