ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Total compatibility up to 45% with 3.6.* (up from 34% last week) Hard work on the update queue has reduced it from 201 on 11/1 to 129 today. Wait time is now down to roughly one week and we hope to get it under a week soon We’re going to focus on nomination queue with goal of getting both down to manageable levels FIREFOX Firefox 3.5.5 short-cycle release shipped on Thursday! Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6 patches still need to land (7 for 3.5.6, 4 for 3.0.16) still lots of blockers needing patches (14 for 3.5.6, 5 for…
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On November 9, 2004 Firefox 1.0 was released. “After a halt of 5 years , innovation became again part of the game and it hasn’t stopped since then bringing on millions of users, locales, communities, and equally importantly, competitors: Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera are all in the game of exploding the web again, and maybe not breaking it this time.” Edit: Mitchel Baker’s memories of this day back in 2004. Source:Mozilal Links
Just Released Firefox 3.5. 5 – November 6th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.0.16 – December 15th Firefox 3.5.6 – December 15th Firefox 3.6 – Year-End 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010
Firefox 3.5.5 was released today and addressed several stability bugs that may lead to crashing in very specific cases like sites that use a GIF image as their favicon. See complete Release Notes for full details. Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going to Help menu and selecting Check For Updates. Also, a reminder from Mozilla Developer Network, If you’re still using Firefox 3.0.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Firefox 3.5 by downloading Firefox 3.5.5 from www.firefox.com. Source: Mozilla Links
Note: Some release and scheduling changes were announced in today’s Weekly Status Meeting Schedule this Week Firefox 3.5.5 – November 6th Future Release Firefox 3.0.16 – December 15th Firefox 3.5.6 – December 15th Firefox 3.6 RC1 – Late November 2009 Firefox 3.6 – Mid December 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010
NOTE: The US and many other countries ended Daylight Savings Time early Sunday morning and returned to Standard Time. So now the Update meeting with be at 19:00 UTC (the “new” 11am PST) Monday. ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Thanks for coming to last week’s meetup, about 40 people showed up and a good time was had by all Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 was launched last week along with the new Add-on Compatibility Reporter 3600 active users 363 reports of incompatible add-ons, 857 reports of compatible ones Currently about 54% of usage is compatible with some version of Fx 3.6 but only 39%…
There has been some revisions to the Speedup Firefox 3.5 Startup article. Inifox no longer seems to exist and the application was only in Spanish. This application would vacuum the Firefox databases. A big thanks to Gareon at Go Firefox! I have found there is now an add-on which will vacuum your place.sqlite database for you and from within Firefox. More information can be found on our Wiki: Speedup Firefox Startup.
While I did download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 release last night, I have finally got around to getting it installed. My system has been a bit problematic for the better part of the day. I also was having some issues with FEBE as well, but those seemed to be related to my profile which I had carried over from Firefox…well I have no idea what Firefox version I started this profile with. I’ve got all my add-ons, passwords, bookmarks and a couple other (except I don’t think my about:config settings carry) items backed up ready to import. So with…
Just Released Firefox 3.0.15 – October 27th Firefox 3.5.4 – October 27th Firefox 3.6b1 – October 30th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.0.16 – December 15th Firefox 3.5.5 – December 15th Firefox 3.6 – Year-End 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010