Mozilla Labs has released an update for Thunderbird 3.1 on June 21st. This release addressed: Several security and stability issues. For more information and to download see the Thunderbird 3.1.11 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 has ended! Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1. Support for Gecko 1.9.2/Thunderbird 3.1 will continue with a 3.1.12 release. Thunderbird 5.0 (formerly Miramar/Thunderbird 3.3) is scheduled with a tentative release date in about one-week on June 28th.
June 21, 2011
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Mozilla has released the 18th update for Firefox 3.6 on June 21st. This update fixed several security issues & stability issues. See release notes for full details. Users can get the update by going to Help >> Check For Updates. Support for Gecko 1.9.2/Firefox 3.6 will continue. Next release will be Firefox 3.6.19, with a release date not yet announced. Firefox 3.5 has reached end of life support as of April 2011, depending on your operating system you should upgrade to Firefox 3.6 or 5.
Mozilla has released the next version of Firefox on June 21, 2011 for desktop and mobile. Firefox 5 includes these updates and new features: Added support for CSS animations The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas Improved spell checking for some locales Fixed several stability issues Fixed several security issues See the release notes for more details. Firefox 5.0 replaces Firefox 4.0.1 which as now reached end of life support. Next release…
The major standout feature in this new release is a new feature called Repair, which allows Xmarks to effortlessly roll back the last sync operation should it prove unsuccessful or introduce unwanted changes. Xmarks is an add-on that is designed to synchronise bookmarks across a number of browsers, devices and computers with the minimum of fuss. It’s available as a free add-on for most major browsers for syncing across multiple platforms and computers, while there is also a Premium version available with extra features, including support for mobile devices…” Jun 21, 2011 More Xmarks 4.0.0 for Firefox introduces Repair…
About two year ago we wrote about how to improve the start-up performance of Firefox 3.5 (yes, that is correct Firefox 3.5). One of the tips was the use of the add-on Vacuum Places Improved. Firefox 4.0 introduced automated and better management of the Places (history and bookmarks) database. I had forgotten all about this add-on until the other day when I was going through the Wiki updating the extensions and tweaks sections for compatibility with the newer versions of Firefox. I didn’t really think much of it then, but had noticed the add-on developer did bump the extension to…