One of the new features coming to Firefox 4 is going to be ‘silent’ updates. That is updates that are automatically downloaded and applied while the browser is running. Google Chrome (which Mozilla seems to be the bases for quite a bit of the new features of Firefox 4) has this as a standard behavior. Because of this though, 97% of Chrome installations are up-to-date, compared to Firefox’s 85% and Safari’s 53%. Now before the hate comments start pouring in, let me point out a couple things: Unlike Chrome, this feature can be turned off. For those users who want…
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Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b3 – August 12, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
Mozilla Messaging has release the second update for Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.1.2 Release Notes. Note: There is not presently an updated for Thunderbird 3.0 at this time. Thunderbird 3.0.7 will be released with Thunderbird 3.1.3 in early September. Source: Mozilla Developer’s News
Just Released Firefox 4.0b2 – July 27, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b3 – August 6, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
Recently there has been a fake Firefox update page (see below) has been floating around the web. This page not only tells the user they are running an out-dated version of Firefox, but that they need to update Adobe Flash Player as well. There is a link to “update” Adobe Flash Player but this is actually a malicious link: The download starts automatically. Save and run it and you get a rogue antivirus product named “SecurityTool” which starts finding threats which aren’t there and demanding payment in order to remove them. With the recent increase in Firefox updates (especially for…
Mozilla has released the second beta for Firefox 4.0. This release is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended as a preview release for web application developers and the testing community. You can read more about this release on the Mozilla Blog, or at any of the following links: Read more about some of the major features in this beta Take a look at our big chart o’ technology that’s included in this beta Read the release notes for Firefox 4 Beta 2 Source: Mozilla Developers News
” I’ve never exactly had a problem running the Firefox web browser on a netbook. But I do tend to disable a few toolbars so that the browser UI doesn’t take up too much screen real estate. When you’re using a 1024 x 600 pixel display, every pixel counts. One user has gone a few steps further and created a collection of 10 add-ons for Firefox designed to improve the experience of using the browser on netbooks with small screens and relatively slow processors…. “ Source: Netbook Optimization Kit makes Firefox a bit more netbook-friendly http://www.liliputing.com/2010/07/netbook-optimization-kit-makes-firefox-a-bit-more-netbook-friendly.html
Just Released Firefox 3.5.11 – July 20, 2010 Firefox 3.6.7 – July 20, 2010 Firefox 3.6.8 – July 23, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b2 – July 26, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 3.5.12 – August 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – August 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
Released This Month Thunderbird 3.0.6 – July 20, 2010 Thunderbird 3.1.1 – July 20, 2010 Schedule Next Month Thunderbird 3.0.7 -TBD Thunderbird 3.1.2 -TBD Future Releases None
Just three days after the release of Firefox 3.6.7, Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 3.6.8 today. According to the release notes this release “Fixed a single stability issue affecting some pages containing plugins.” The current version of Firefox 3.5 still remains 3.5.11 as this issue only affected Firefox 3.6 release. Users should be prompted soon to update, but can obtain this update via Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates… Source: Mozilla Developer’s News