As mentioned last week on the Changes Coming to Our Main Site post, we’ve been upgrading our existing site. We are please to announce the first two sections of The Firefox Extension Guru’s Wiki are now live! So far the Tips & Tricks section of the main site has been migrated over to the Wiki. Also, most of the tweaks have been migrated over as well. Yes, most of the tweaks. This was because there were a few tweaks that really only applied to the early builds of Firefox 2. Most of the fixes provided by those tweaks were implemented…
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After many delays Firefox 3.6b1 has been released today! This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.
Tuesday we saw the releases of Firefox 3.0.15 and Firefox 3.5.4. On Wednesday Firefox 3.6b1 was suppose to be released, at least that was what the new date was after last week’s delay. Wednesday has come and gone and no Firefox 3.6b1. The latest date on the release site shows Late October. Well that narrows it down to either today (29th) or tomorrow (30th). But, I am going to go out on a limb and say sometime in November…
Firefox 3.5.4 was released on October 27th. This release addresses Several security issues and fixed several stability issues. 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 2.0.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Firefox 3.5 by downloading Firefox 3.5.4 from www.firefox.com.
Mozilla has released the 15th stability and security update for the Firefox 3 browser. For more information about What’s New in Firefox 3.0.15, check out the Firefox 3.0.15 Release Notes. Current Firefox 3 users may obtain Firefox 3.0.15 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 3.0.15 directly via getfirefox.com
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.2 launched last Tuesday with support for Personas and new statistics for developers Kicking off Firefox 3.6 compatibility efforts. Currently at 36% Add-on Compatibility Reporter was announced last week Add-ons Meetup at 7pm tomorrow night in Mountain View, RSVP! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4 on track for shipping tomorrow (yay) Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.5 proposed schedules available on the wiki mid-December release date… yeah. changing our beta period structure to push the release to beta channel earlier Namoroka (Firefox 3.6) Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 scheduled to be released Wednesday, October 28 nightly and beta users…
With Persona being integrated into the upcoming Firefox 3.6, there is now a dedicated section on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) for Personas. Users can also still visit GetPersonas.com as well to view the current (and always growing) selection of Personas. Source: Mozilla Links
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.0.15 – October 27th Firefox 3.5.4 – October 27th Firefox 3.6b1 – October 28th Future Release Firefox 3.6 – Year-End 2009 Firefox 3.7 – Spring 2010
You may have noticed a slight change recently on the main site (ffextensionguru.com) with the ‘recent news’ section. This use to be a static list of recent blog post that I would have to go in an update manually. I have since replaced this with a JavaScript application which automatically post from the feed. The application is from Feed2JS and it is free (you can also get and run your own instance of Feed2JS if you have your own server/hosting). I am hoping to be able to do the same thing for the ‘recent updates’ section. This ties into the…
From the Microsoft Blog. Only at BK Japan, The Windows 7 Whopper!