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Firefox 3.6 / Fennec 1.0
mozilla-1.9.2 branch
Q3/Q4 2009: Support delivery of mobile device and Windows CE device Firefox releases as well stabilize and update Firefox quickly to improve application responsiveness.

platform enhancements
- interruptible reflow
- phase one of compositor
- Windows 7 integration
end user feature enhancements
- lightweight themes (Personas)
- awesomeformcomplete
speed and responsiveness improvements
- asynchronous location bar
- tracemonkey engine improvements
- improved scrolling model on Windows
- tilecache on Maemo and Windows Mobile
- optimized session restore to show focused tab contents quickly
- startup optimizations

Firefox 3.7 / Fennec 1.1
mozilla-1.9.3 branch
Q1/Q2 2010: Run plugins in a separate process to improve overall application stability and responsiveness. Improve startup time

platform enhancements
- out of process plugins
- phase two of compositor
- support for animation in XUL
end user feature enhancements
- bookmark synchronization
- run websites as an application
- task oriented browsing
speed and responsiveness improvements
- tracemonkey engine improvements
- pageload optimizations

Firefox 4 / Fennec 2
mozilla-1.9.4 branch
Q3/Q4 2010: Process separation for chrome and content, new extensibility mechanism through APIs, revised UI on all platforms

platform enhancements
- content and chrome in separate process
- binary component versioning
- new extensibility platform (JetPack)
end user feature enhancements
- browser sync (Weave)
- new UI on all platforms
speed and responsiveness improvements
- tracemonkey engine improvements

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 * platform enhancements
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 ;mozilla-1.9.4 branch
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-;Process separation for chrome and content, new extensibility mechanism through APIs, revised UI on all platforms
+:Process separation for chrome and content, new extensibility mechanism through APIs, revised UI on all platforms
 * platform enhancements
 ** content and chrome in separate process