February 10, 2011

Firefox 3.7a1 Released 1-Year Ago

Well sort of. Back then it was being called “Mozilla Developers Preview (1.9.3 alpha)”.  The odd naming was due to this being a preview of the new Gecko 1.9.3 rendering engine and what likely would have become Firefox 3.7 (Firefox 3.6 runs on Gecko 1.9.2.x) .  There were a total of five Alpha releases between February and June 2010. Then it was decided to scrap Firefox 3.7 as well as Gecko 1.9.3 and move everything on to Gecko 2.0 and then also start labeling the releases as Firefox 4 Beta in July 2010. So, here we are 1-year later and…

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Status Messages in Firefox 4 Beta 11

awer commented on the Firefox 4 Beta 11 Released post: I like that the new connection status messages are now in a overlay on the bottom. It is very good, they are only there when needed. I was not aware of this new update with Beta 11 as I learned the Status-4-Evar extension overrode that behavior. Once I disabled Status-4-Evar and restarted I was able to see what the commenter was talking about. While a page is loading you will get an overlay of the loading status just above the add-ons bar. This is similar to the behavior of Chrome…

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