With Firefox 3.5 Released yesterday, many unsuspecting users are going to unwillingly discover the new tab tearing ‘feature’ in Firefox 3.5. This ‘feature’ allows you to tear a tab from the current window to have it opened in its own window. The problem with this is simply clicking on the tab and dragging it downward tears it from the current browser window and places it in another new window.
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After nearly a year in development (and six months later than planned) Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 today! Many new exciting features for users and web developers:
Just Released Firefox 3.5RC3 – June 24, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week FIREFOX 3.5 – JUNE 30th Future Release Firefox 3.0.12 – July 21st
We mentioned earlier today about Firefox 3.5 RC3 Coming, it is now available for download. Whilst this may be as close to a final product, it is still a developmental version, therefore the usual disclaimer still applies: Please note: Firefox 3.5 RC3 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this release. Source: Mozilla Developers News
A very minor third and final RC is coming for Firefox 3.5 very soon. This RC includes retouches to the Firefox icon, localization corrections and a few performance tweaks. Due to the minor scope of this RC this should not have any effect on the final Firefox 3.5 release next week. Source: MozillaLinks
As of Monday’s Mozilla Project Weekly meeting, they are on target to ship Firefox 3.5 by the end of this month. Wednesday is the “point of no return” where they will decide if Firefox 3.5 is ready for the month end release or not. Stay tuned…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 13k Collections made since launch 81% Compatibility Extend Firefox Contest Nick Nguyen speaking this week FISL in Brazil FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.12 Missed blockers for code freeze a week ago Still trying to get in a couple more Pushing out release by one week due to blockers missing code freeze Firefox 3.5 first version of the RC went to 800,000 beta testers on Monday second version of the RC went live on Friday afternoon PDT will make ship/no-ship evaluation on Wednesday of this week still on target for last week of June Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) moving on to TSnap…
Firefox Product Director, Mike Beltzner gives a tour of some of the new and exciting features of the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Zbc-Rg6e8] Source: MozillaLinks
Took these photos last night. Click the photos below to see the full-size (3072×1728) I do love the zoom feature on this camera. Odd, I don’t recall being able to see those palm trees from my front door. May be they are more noticeable since being trimmed and cleaned.
Just Released Firefox 3.5RC1* – June 16, 2009 Firefox 3.5RC2 – June 19, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week NONE Future Release Firefox 3.0.12 – July 15th Firefox 3.5RC1 – June 2009 *Firefox 3.5RC1 was released through the ‘Beta’ update channel only.