Firefox 3.6 beta 5 now available

Firefox 3.6 is moving closer to release.

On Thursday, Mozilla announced the fifth beta release of the forthcoming browser update.

Beta 5 offers improvements in performance, support for third party applications and user interface choices.

In the words of a Mozilla rep, here are the key new features and improvements to test:

• Support for the HTML5 File API
• A change to how third party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability
• The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times
• Built-in support for Personas. Users can change browser's appearance with one click.
• Alerts about out-of-date plug-ins
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
• Support for the WOFF font format.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
• Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.