Mozilla released the next update for Firefox Desktop and Mobile (Android) users on Tuesday, March 18th. Firefox 28 for Desktop and Mobile included these updates: Desktop Mobile NEW VP9 video decoding implemented Mac OS X: Notification Center support for web notifications Horizontal HTML5 audio/video volume control Support for Opus in WebM CHANGED Now that spdy/3 is implemented support for spdy/2 has been removed and servers without spdy/3 will negotiate to http/1 without any penalty DEVELOPER Support for MathML 2.0 ‘mathvariant’ attribute Background thread hang reporting Support for multi-line flexbox in layout FIXED Various security fixes UNRESOLVED Echo cancellation on apprtc.appspot.com…
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Earlier this month I went through the process of installing theme and plugin updates for all the WordPress sites I host. I actively try to keep the sites updated as a I learned the hard way the damage and out-of-date plugin can cause. On the old gallery site I was using ZenPhoto which unlike WordPress, is not an easy application to install updates. So I had neglected to update the site for a while. One morning a couple years ago, I get online to find dozens of emails from my Firefox Blog followers (and a couple from my hosting company)…
Just Released None Coming Soon Thunderbird ESR 24.4.0 Thunderbird 24.4.0 Thunderbird 29 Beta (29.0b1) > 24.5.0 * Thunderbird 30 Earlybird (30.0a2) > 24.6.0 * Future Releases April 29th Thunderbird ESR 24.5.0 Thunderbird 24.5.0 Thunderbird 30 Beta (30.0b1) > 24.6.0 * Thunderbird 31 Earlybird (31.0a2) > 24.7.0 * * As part of Rapid Release, dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds are for code merge, actual release dates may vary by several days. Further Earlybird and Beta builds follow the current Gecko branch numbering while the actual release build follows the current ESR branch numbering.
Just Released None Coming This Week Firefox 28 Firefox for Android 28 Firefox 24.4.0 ESR Firefox 29 Beta (29.0b1)* Firefox 30 Aurora (30.0a2)* Future Releases April 29th Firefox 29 Firefox for Android 29 Firefox 24.5.0 ESR Firefox 30 Beta (30.0b1)* Firefox 31 Aurora (31.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
On the Firefox Future Releases blog today, Johnathan Nightingale (VP Firefox) announced that Mozilla has decided that adopting Firefox for ‘Metro’ is not a battle worth fighting. The main reason is the overall lack of interest in having a ‘Metro’ version of Firefox. In late 2012, when I started up the Firefox for Metro team (I know that’s not what Microsoft calls it anymore, but it remains how we talk about it in Mozilla), it looked like the next battleground for the Web. Windows is a massive ecosystem and Microsoft pushes its new platforms hard. At first, it looked like…
Mozilla has big plans for the Firefox OS in 2014. However, I am not sure if these plans include the US as we saw with the Firefox OS Phones which were released in Europe in 2013. So for the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MCW) Mozilla is announcing new devices for the entire world (though may be not in the US): $25 Firefox OS Smart Phone Panasonic Firefox OS Powered Smart TV Firefox OS Powered Tablets See more at The Den
Mozilla released an emergency update for Firefox users on Thursday, February 13th. Firefox 27.0.1 included two JavaScript (JS) related fixes (see below). Depending on update settings, users should automatically be prompted to update to Firefox 27 or may do so manually via Help > About Firefox or downloading and installing via the getfirefox.com site. The next scheduled released is Firefox 28 on March 18th, 2014. Fixed stability issues with Greasemonkey and other JS that used ClearTimeoutOrInterval JS math correctness issue (bug 941381)
Mozilla released the next update for Firefox Desktop users on Tuesday, February 4th. Firefox 27 included several updates which can be reviewed here. Depending on update settings, users should automatically be prompted to update to Firefox 27 or may do so manually via Help > About Firefox or downloading and installing via the getfirefox.com site. The next scheduled update is Firefox 28.
Mozilla released an update for the Thunderbird 24.x branch on February 4th, 2014. Thunderbird 24.3.0 addressed these issues: Security fixes can be found here Improved handling of reply-to (bug 933555) Depending on update settings, users should automatically be prompted to update to Thunderbird 24.3.0 or may do so manually via Help > About Thunderbird or downloading and installing via the getthunderbird.com site. The next scheduled update will be Thunderbird 24.4.0.
Earlier in January, a Google Chrome update include a new feature called Noisy Tabs which will put an indicator (speaker icon) on a tab that is playing audio. This helpful for when you do a session restore or you’re clicking links to open new tabs in the background then suddenly you have audio playing and have no idea which tab it is coming from. Instead of having to go through each tab you can quickly see which tab is “singing” by looking for the icon on the tab. So, I wondered if there was an add-on that added this functionality…