The long-awaited Firefox 3.6 has been released after months of testing, and key amongst its many new features is an emphasis on speeding up the web browsing experience.

Firefox 3.6 boasts a 20% faster browsing speed than its predecessor 3.5, reports Mashable. Startup speed, stability, and load times have been improved. Running scripts has been streamlined. And the way it handles javascript has been altered to provide faster loading and use of java-enabled pages.