Mozilla has released the third beta for Firefox 4.0 on August 11, 2010. This release is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended as a preview release for web application developers and the testing community. Firefox 4 Beta 3 includes several major features and improvements – by testing them early we’ll be able to respond to your feedback for future versions of Firefox. The included Feedback Add-On that helps you let us know what you think about the new features and technologies in the beta. You can read more about this release on the Mozilla Blog, or…
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One of the new features coming to Firefox 4 is going to be ‘silent’ updates. That is updates that are automatically downloaded and applied while the browser is running. Google Chrome (which Mozilla seems to be the bases for quite a bit of the new features of Firefox 4) has this as a standard behavior. Because of this though, 97% of Chrome installations are up-to-date, compared to Firefox’s 85% and Safari’s 53%. Now before the hate comments start pouring in, let me point out a couple things: Unlike Chrome, this feature can be turned off. For those users who want…
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b3 – August 12, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
Mozilla Messaging has release the second update for Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.1.2 Release Notes. Note: There is not presently an updated for Thunderbird 3.0 at this time. Thunderbird 3.0.7 will be released with Thunderbird 3.1.3 in early September. Source: Mozilla Developer’s News