Just Released Firefox 3.6b3 – November 17th Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.6b4 — ?? Future Release Firefox 3.0.16 – December 15th Firefox 3.5.6 – December 15th Firefox 3.6 – Year-End 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010

Mozilla Release Beta 3 of Firefox 3.6 late Tuesday afternoon. This release includes some 90+ bug fixes, here a few: A new API will now allow add-on developers access Firefox’s geolocation features. (See Doug Turner’s post) As expected,  tab previews on Windows 7 taskbar has been pulled back. This is a real disappointment: there will be no support at all for some of Windows 7’s most welcomed features: jump lists, download progress in the task bar (a la IE8), and now no tab previews. In the security/stability front, the Firefox components directory is now locked down, which means no third…

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Download Source Tracking Self Hosted Add-ons Pledge Drives and Subscriptions Reviews are humming along Need Seamonkey reviewers AMO 5.4 Enhanced Localization GetSatisfaction for Add-ons Release Channels Compatibility up to 49% Add-on compatibility reporter emails going out this week 2200 add-ons, 24,000 reports FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6 slushy code freeze for both releases still have a couple of patches to take otherwise, on track for mid-December release Namoroka (Firefox 3.6) beta 3 refresh should be coming Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning beta 3 includes a components directory lockdown feature – johnath to blog about the details early…

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Thanks for coming to last week’s meetup, about 40 people showed up and a good time was had by all Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 was launched last week along with the new Add-on Compatibility Reporter 3600 active users 363 reports of incompatible add-ons, 857 reports of compatible ones Currently about 54% of usage is compatible with some version of Fx 3.6 but only 39% are marked as compatible with 3.6b1 and above.   FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4 shipped last Tuesday! 3.5.4 stability issues caught after push…   Firefox 3.5.5 scheduling a short-cycle release developers jumped on…

Just Released Firefox 3.6b2 – November 11th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.0.16 – December 15th Firefox 3.5.6 – December 15th Firefox 3.6 – Year-End 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010

Mozilla has pushed out Beta 2 for Firefox 3.6 on November 10th. This update contains over 190 fixes from the last Firefox 3.6 beta, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. The Mozilla community appreciates your feedback and assistance in testing this preview of the next version of Firefox. Your beta software will update itself periodically, and eventually will be updated to the final release itself. The Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features for users to evaluate: (New in this update) A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox. Users can…

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Total compatibility up to 45% with 3.6.* (up from 34% last week) Hard work on the update queue has reduced it from 201 on 11/1 to 129 today. Wait time is now down to roughly one week and we hope to get it under a week soon We’re going to focus on nomination queue with goal of getting both down to manageable levels FIREFOX Firefox 3.5.5 short-cycle release shipped on Thursday! Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6 patches still need to land (7 for 3.5.6, 4 for 3.0.16) still lots of blockers needing patches (14 for 3.5.6, 5 for…

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On November 9, 2004 Firefox 1.0 was released. “After a halt of 5 years , innovation became again part of the game and it hasn’t stopped since then bringing on millions of users, locales, communities, and equally importantly, competitors: Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera are all in the game of exploding the web again, and maybe not breaking it this time.” Edit: Mitchel Baker’s memories of this day back in 2004. Source:Mozilal Links

Just Released Firefox 3.5. 5 – November 6th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.0.16 – December 15th Firefox 3.5.6 – December 15th Firefox 3.6 – Year-End 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010