Just Released Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – March 9th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.18 – To Be Announced Firefox 3.6.16 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 2 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 – April 2011
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Mozilla Messaging should be releasing Miramar Alpha 3 within the next couple weeks. Update: Mozilla is currently showing a release date around March 15/16th.
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Mozilla released the first Release Candidate for Firefox 4.0 on March 9th. For more info see the release notes for Firefox 4 RC1 The next planned release is the Release Candidate (RC) 2).
…about a month later. Well, that is a guess given Mozilla is making plans for a worldwide Firefox 4 Launch Party on April 15th. While Mozilla hasn’t nailed down an official release date yet for Firefox 4, Microsoft announced today IE9 is being released next Monday, March 14th.
Mozilla has urged users to update their graphics cards’ drivers if they want to take advantage of Firefox 4’s hardware acceleration. Last Friday, Benoit Jacob, who works on Mozilla’s platform engineering team, spelled out why users should verify that their computers, especially PCs powered by Windows, have the latest graphics drivers. “When we turned these features on by default in nightly builds around September last year, and then in [Firefox 4] Beta 7, crash statistics and bug reports quickly showed that bugs in graphics drivers were often making these features misbehave,” Jacob said… March 7, 2011 Mozilla urges users to…
Thanks to Claus’s post over at Grand Stream Dreams, I was able to install the 64-Bit version of Firefox 4 Beta13pre for Windows. Been a while since I’ve been using the nightly builds, so this will take a little use to updating on a daily basis. One of the complications I have heard in regards to running a 64-Bit Browser on Windows is Adobe Flash does not yet support 64-Bit. However, Adobe has a developmental version called Flash Player “Square “ which enables 64-bit support. A word of advise if you already have the 32-bit version of Flash installed, you…
Mozilla on Thursday launched a developer preview of its Web application platform, a more distributed version of what Google is doing with its Chrome Web Store.<br>”Web applications are simply Web sites with an accompanying configuration file. This file, the manifest, contains extra information necessary to install the Web app, which in some instances may make it available when there’s no network connection.<br>”Google’s Web app specification makes a distinction between installable Web apps and hosted Web apps. The former rely on Google Chrome Extension APIs and only run in the Chrome browser. The latter are simply what we know today as…
Just Released Firefox 3.5.17 – March 1st Firefox 3.6.14 – March 1st Firefox 3.6.15 – March 4th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.18 – To Be Announced Firefox 3.6.16 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 – To Be Announced
Mozilla Messaging has released an update for Thunderbird 3.1 on March 4th. This release addressed: Prevents a crash after update, that is affecting some users. For more information and to download see the Thunderbird 3.1.9 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 has ended! Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1