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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)
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…
“… There are 64-bit versions of Firefox, and they are made available by Mozilla for Linux distributions and Mac OS X. If you are looking for a Windows 64-bit version on the other hand, you won’t find it advertised on the official project website, and will have a hard time finding references made to it on the site as well.…“Third-party forks of Firefox exist that provide access to a 64-bit version. You can download the 64-bit version of Pale Moon for example. The browser is compatible with all 64-bit operating systems from Windows Vista on and supports all the things…
“Every month, a committee of Firefox volunteers — who really, REALLY love Firefox Add-ons — puts their time and effort into finding the best new add-ons. These add-ons are the little pieces of software that add functionality to your Firefox browser and help you customize Firefox to meet your needs and tastes. Can you see why these volunteers like them so much? …” Source: Mozilla | The Den Details Best Firefox Add-ons of 2013
Mozilla released the next update for Firefox Desktop users on Tuesday, December 10th. Firefox 26 included these updates: NEW All Java plug-ins are defaulted to ‘click to play’ Password manager now supports script-generated password fields Updates can now be performed by Windows users without write permissions to Firefox install directory (requires Mozilla Maintenance Service) Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed CHANGED Support for MP3 decoding on Windows XP, completing MP3 support across Windows OS versions CSP implementation now supports multiple policies, including the case of both an enforced and Report-Only policy, per the spec DEVELOPER…
Finally after years of being held hostage by Macromedia/Adobe’s Flash Plugin, Firefox will no longer be dependent on this annoying and often times mischievous plugin to display Flash type content come Firefox 27 in early 2014. Mozilla developed Shumway, an open-source HTML5 competent starting back in early 2012 to replace the proprietary Flash (player) Plugin. via Geek.com
Searches in the Firefox in browser Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) will no longer return results for add-ons which are experimental or not “Fully Reviewed”. Fully reviewed add-ons meet all of our quality standards, while preliminarily [sic] reviewed add-ons only have to meet a lower standard, focused mostly on security and privacy. While Mozilla did make the reviews levels clear on the AMO site, the in browser add-ons manager did not show a distinction between Fully Reviewed and Experimental add-ons. As a result, users could unknowingly install an experimental add-ons when they believed they were installing a Fully Reviewed add-on….
Mozilla released an emergency update for Firefox 23 on August 16, 2013. Firefox 23.0.1 addressed these issues: Rendering glitches on H.264 video only in FF23 on Vista (Bug 901944) Spellchecking broken with non-ASCII characters in profile path (Bug 902532) Audio static/”burble”/breakup in Firefox to Firefox WebRTC calls (Bug 901527) Depending on the operating system and update settings (Tools > Options… > Advanced > Update Tab), users will be prompted to update within in the next 48-hours. Windows users can also go to Help > About Firefox and click the Check for Updates button. Users may also manually download and install Firefox via getfirefox.com. The…
“If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would protect the content of messages from being read by automated tools and anyone else with access.“Mailvelope is a free browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that introduces OpenPGP encryption to webmail services that you may be using. The extension ships with support for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook and…