Just Released Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0b5 – September 7, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.13 – October 12, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.10 – October 12, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – Mid/Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
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I can not completely say this new ‘feature’ was taken from Chrome. Presently Firefox has separate stop, reload and go buttons. There are many add-ons out there such as Stop-or-Reload Button which combine the stop and reload buttons in to one button. In the upcoming Firefox 4 this is taken a step further. The ‘go button’ (which appears at the right-end of the address bar when typing an address) is being moved off the address bar and merged with a combined stop and reload button. As I said this is sort of borrowed from Google Chrome. In Chrome on the…
September 7th was a major release day for Mozilla. We saw new versions of Thunderbird 3.0 and 3.1 as well as newly released updates on all 3 active versions of Firefox (3.5, 3.6 and the developmental 4.0). Firefox 3.6.9 has been released and fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6: Introduced support for the X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP response header. Site owners can use this to mitigate clickjacking attacks by ensuring that their content is not embedded into other sites. Fixed several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. See complete release notes. User should soon be prompted to…
Firefox 3.5.12 was released on September 7th. See complete Release Notes for full details. Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going to Help menu and selecting Check For Updates. If you’re still using Firefox 3.0.x, this version is no longer supported and may contain security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Firefox 3.5 by downloading Firefox 3.5.12 from here It also appears there is going to be one more update after all. Firefox 3.5.13 is due out in mid October 2010.
Mozilla has released the fifth beta for Firefox 4.0 on September 7th (along with updates to Thunderbird and other versions of Firefox). 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. New stuff in this release: Support for the new proposed Audio Data API Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over…
Part of Mozilla’s mega-releases on September 7th, Mozilla Messaging has release the third update for Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.1.3 Release Notes. Further an update for Thunderbird 3.0 has also been released. For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.0.7 Release Notes. Next up in mid October will be Thunderbird 3.0.8 and 3.1.4.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0b5 – September 7, 2010 Future Release Firefox 4.0rc1 – Mid/Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010