A new addition to Fx 3 which will add about 100-200 KB to Fx Code will be support (though not yet documented) for the forthcoming <VIDEO> <AUDIO> HTML 5 Tags. However, this currently not in any released (or nightly) Fx 3 builds and further: Right now and for its first iteration, support will be limited to Theora and Vorbis, a couple of open source video and audio encoding formats respectively, developed by the Xiph.org Foundation, as recommended by the specification but other formats may be supported in the future as well. News Source: Mozilla Links
June 2007
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Earlier this week Flock 0.7.14 was released. Nothing really exicting as all the 0.7.14 Flock Maintenance patch does is incorporates Mozilla’s patch (for Fx) 1.5.0.12.
Back in February, I posted: Netscape 9 Announced. Now, four months later Netscape Navigator Beta 1 has been release. Yes, they have resurrected the Navigator name in this version. Remember, Netscape 9 is built by AOL/Time Warner (not affiliated with Mozilla) off the Mozilla Fx 2 rendering engine (Gecko 1.8). You could almost call Netscape 9 a “power user’s” version of Fx 2. Besides the standard, Session Management, Spell Check, etc. it also has many other standard features which would require extensions in Fx 2: Resizeable Textarea – allows you to make a textarea larger or smaller URL Correction –…
Mozilla had planned on having Fx 3 Alpha 5 with Places out by May 31st. Well, they missed the May 31st time line by a few days. However, when it was released on June 6th, it did include Places at least for Bookmark management. Ryan at CyberNet News has a nice screenshot here: Click For Larger Image Some other new features with the 3.0a5 release: Crash Reporting via the new Breakpad Mac OS X & Some Windows builds (not yet on Linux) New Javascript-based Password Manager More details here. Support for Growl notification under Mac OS X Support for native…
For those of you using Fx 1.5.0.12 and are on the Beta (update) Channel, you should be offered the major update to Fx 2.0.0.4 soon (if you haven’t already). Here is a nice screenshot compliments of Ryan at CyberNet News on what the Major Update will look like: If a user selects “Later”, they will be prompted again in approximately 24 hours. If a user selects “Never”, they are opting to skip this offer to upgrade and will not be prompted again for this particular release (2.0.0.4). If Mozilla decides to offer a 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.5 major upgrade, the user…
Lots has happened in the past two weeks (last Monday was Memorial Day) including some new Fx (both branches) and TBird releases. Fx 1.5.0.12 – The release of this build on Wednesday, May 30th marks the end of the security and other updates on the old Fx 1.5 branch. Now would be a good time to go to Fx 2! Major Updates – If you are currently on the ‘Beta’ update channel with Fx 1.5.0.12 you may be presented with the option to migrate over to Fx 2.0.0.4 later this week. I might try this out, but then I am…
One of the big changes we saw with Fx2 was the ‘visual refresh’ a major update (not so much a redesign) of the User Interface (UI). It looks like we are going to be see big change and with this one more of a design of the UI. Some of these changes are part of the integration of ‘Places’ bookmarking system. On Alex Faaborg’s Blog are several conceptual mock ups of Gran Paradiso’s possible new user interface. Content handling UI replacing the old-styled dialog boxes. Malware Detection, based on a similar Anti-Phising Protection in Fx2. Special thanks to…