Mozilla has released the fifth Alpha for Gecko 1.9.3 layout engine likely to be used in the future Firefox 4. 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. See Release Notes for more information and download/installation instructions. New changes in this release include: User-facing changes Aero Glass is now enabled for Windows Vista and Windows 7. More parts of the new Windows theme have landed including new main button icons. Many more changes are coming in later releases. The new Add-ons manager has…
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Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.10 – June 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – June 2010 Future Release Firefox 3.7a5 – TBD Firefox 4.0b1 – June 24, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative
As we are now a third of the way into June, still no updated release date for the upcoming Firefox 3.5/3.6 updates. Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 is still listed as tentative for June 24th. However, Firefox 3.7a5 is now on the list but as TBD. As you may recall Firefox 3.7 was going into the beta builds as Firefox 4.0, so this really is odd. I’ll check again Friday night when I get ready to post the Weekly Release Recap. There is some good news, Thunderbird 3.1RC2 came out on Wednesday ahead of schedule. Mozilla Messaging seems to be moving…
Mozilla Messaging has release the second Release Candidate for the upcoming Thunderbird 3.1. This release is intended for extension developers and beta testers. New features in Thunderbird 3.1 that require feedback include: New Quick Filter toolbar New Migration Assistant Saved Files Manager Several fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2 Several design improvements and corrections to the interface Stability, memory, and password handling improvements For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.1RC2 Release Notes.
Note: I am posting this both on my personal El Guru and Firefox Extension Guru’s Blogs to get as much feedback as I can on this. As some my long time Firefox Blog readers may recall I had experimented a bit back in 2007 with Linux Ubuntu. Never really got a chance to do much with it as about six-months after I had installed Ubuntu I had to replace the computer. Given everything I do online, I could not be without a computer for a few days. Because of this I could not go my usual route and have one…
For those unfamiliar with HTML5, it is going to be the next big update for the HTML coding standard. Some of the new elements in HTML5 include: Canvas Element: allows rendering of graphics (including those used in games) on the fly. What is nice about Canvas is this is done without the need for troublesome plugins such as Flash. On a side note about Flash, Apple CEO Steve Jobs hates Flash and loves HTML5 Video Element: allows embedding of video without the need for clunky plugins such as the open source Adobe Flash and Apple’s QuickTime. HTML5 is going to…
Get one of these? ” As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet Explorer and an extension for Mozilla Firefox, both without the user’s permission…It’s also not really clear what the installed extension actually does. “ Microsoft hides mystery Firefox extension in toolbar update Source: Microsoft hides mystery Firefox extension in toolbar update Rest of story http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/06/microsoft-slips-ie-firefox-add-on-into-toolbar-update.ars Gary
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.10 – Early June 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – Early June 2010 Future Release Firefox 4.0b1 – June 24, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative
For those of you expecting an update for the Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 builds today, you will still need to wait. The upcoming releases continue to be postponed. No word yet on an updated release date other than ‘early June’. Thanks to alin for the news update.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.10 – June 1, 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – June 1, 2010 Future Release Firefox 4.0b1 – June 24, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative