I updated to Shiretoko (Firefox 3.5 developmental) version3.5 pre last night. This marks the en dof the Beta builds for Firefox 3.5 and means there should be an upcoming Release Candidate soon. Everything for the most part went as expected with this update including about 1/3 of my add-ons becoming disabled. The add-ons all appear to be working fine now once they were force installed via the Nightly Tester Tools. However, when I went to compose a blog post in Firefox 3.5, I could not get the ‘Visual’ editor to work correctly. No, it did not crash my browser like…
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Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 MU – ?? Future Release Firefox 3.0.11 – June 2nd/3rd Firefox 3.0.12 – July 15th Firefox 3.5RC1 – TBA
Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 MU – May 21st Future Release Firefox 3.0.11 – June 2nd/3rd Firefox 3.0.12 – July 14th Firefox 3.5b5 – TBA
Back on May 1st, The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog turned 3. Taking a looking back around May 1st for the past 3-years, here were some of the big news items: 2006 Mike Schroepfer announced developers were yanking Places from the then upcoming Firefox 2 release. Bon Echo/Firefox 2 Alpha 2 release. 2007 Support for both Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 would be ending soon. Dell was going to offer (on some systems) Ubuntu & OpenOffice.org instead of Windows Vista and Office 2007 The Guru begins to experiment with Ubuntu. 2008 The failed takeover/merger of Yahoo! by Microsoft. Still not sure if…
Announced at Monday’s Mozilla Project Weekly Status meeting, the first Release Candidate for Firefox 3.5 should be out in early June. Also, June 17th will mark the 1-year anniversary of the Firefox 3 release.
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) New blog template, thanks to morgamic, Sean Martell, and the kubrick folks New policy around “no surprises” posted to blog New category pages and simple user profiles New developer agreement 3.5.* now active in AMO, sending out email today or tomorrow to extension developers, currently around 52% are compatible with 3.5.* and higher 5.0.6 release totally focused on reskin and Bandwagon, will ship May 28 AMO Presentation now up on Slideshare, will blog this week. Welcome Chris Howse AMO Design Intern! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.11 schedule coming later this week likely a 6-week release to account for early-July holidays…
The tweaks section (tweaks.ffextensionguru.com) has been fully updated for Firefox 3.5.
I am thrilled to finally see this being planned for Firefox. The ability for the browser and each tab to run as their own process was one of the greatest features of Google Chrome. I know what it is like to have to whole browser shut-down because of one problematic tab. I dealt with this for several weeks last tear and this year with AdBlock and WordPress causing a crash. Also have had this issue with my Thunderbird Blog when entering commonly used words on the title. In those instances, the entire browser shut-down. Right now this in the early…
Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week NONE Future Release Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 MU – Early/Mid May Firefox 3.0.11 – Early June 2009 Firefox 3.5b5 – TBA
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) New blog template, thanks to morgamic, Sean Martell, and the kubrick folks New policy around “no surprises” posted to blog New category pages and simple user profiles New developer agreement 3.5.* now active in AMO, sending out email today or tomorrow to extension developers, currently around 52% are compatible with 3.5.* and higher 5.0.6 release totally focused on reskin and Bandwagon, will ship May 28 AMO Presentation now up on Slideshare, will blog this week. Welcome Chris Howse AMO Design Intern! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.9 Released April 22nd Firefox 3.0.10 Firedrill Release April 27th Final major update for Firefox…