October 2009

Firefox Release Recap: October Week 1

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.6b1 – October 15th Future Release Firefox 3.0.15 – October 21st Firefox 3.5.4 – October 21st Firefox 3.6 – November 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010

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Firefox Smörgåsbord

A Smörgåsbord of Firefox related news items from the past couple weeks. Fake PayPal screen dupes IE, Safari, Chrome – Microsoft Blog/Seattle PI Sadly it is stores like these that give PayPal a bad reputation as being associated with fraud and theft.  But it is not PayPal’s fault. Most of the fault comes down to the uneducated web user who don’t take a quick moment to review the address bar for https as well as making sure they are really at PayPal.com and to look for the secure ‘padlock” (also in IE7 and Firefox the address bar will have a…

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The Guru: At Work with Firefox

Over the past few weeks there has been a decline in the number of post on the blog. I’ve been trying to post at least the Mozilla Project Weekly  Status posts each week and if there is new info, the Firefox Release Recaps. My job has been keeping me a bit busy and since being promoted to a hosting support team in August been very busy with training and ‘challenge projects’ (most of which end up becoming ‘homework’). Things have settled down a little, but really it is just ‘the calm before the storm’. Much like a hurricane and right…

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Mozilla Project Weekly Status: October 5, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Jorge in MozCamp Chile for the next two days 51% of add-ons are compatible with Fx 3.6, time to start testing with 3.6, more info coming soon FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4 mostly on track for October 21 releases need to take at least two more fixes before starting builds ETA for “go to build” tomorrow morning, possibly not until Wednesday Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.5 branches open for check-ins later this week — work on your patches and approval requests now! Namoroka (Firefox 3.6) Code freeze targeted for this week (check the Tuesday engineering or Wednesday…

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