With yesterday’s announcement on the Firefox 3.5 RC2 release, I was thinking I must have missed the announcement for RC1. As I was getting ready to publish this week’s release recaps I noticed the Mozilla ‘Release Page’ showed RC1 as released on June 16th. Odd I don’t recall seeing an announcement from Mozilla Dev News. So I checked back over there and discovered there was indeed an announcement, but this was not a ‘public’ release. Our 800,000+ Firefox 3.5 beta users will be receiving an update to the first Firefox 3.5 release candidate (3.5rc1build2) in order to continue to help…
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Please note: Firefox 3.5 RC2 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. New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include: This beta is now available in more than 70 languages – get your local version. Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode. Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded…
One year ago today Firefox 3 was released. Here a couple posts from around that day: Mozilla Press Release Firefox 3.0 RELEASED! A Gift From Microsoft’s IE Team
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.0.6 release on Wednesday Almost 300 resolved bugs- check out Fligtar’s moxie Dashboard Redesign of AMO from top to bottom with our first Firefox extension (Add-on Collector) and the Collections feature! Compatibility with 3.5 up to 72% thanks to Sun updating the Java Console entry- should be up another 3-4% once they complete testing of the new Java Console AMO 5.0.7 release includes Contributions and Tagging, launching on 6/30 FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.11 Shipped! Yay! Firefox 3.0.12 Code freeze targeted for tomorrow at 11:59pm. Please work on your blockers Firefox 3.5 1 blocker left and it’s actually already…
Just Released Firefox 3.0.11 – June 11th Schedule this Coming Week NONE Future Release Firefox 3.0.12 – July 15th Firefox 3.5RC1 – June 2009
In a move that has been described as “a step backward in the retail software arena” Microsoft release a statement saying they will NOT bundle Internet Explorer (or any other browsers) with Windows 7 when it it is release in the European Market. Since the computer will not have a web browser installed, users will be unable to go on to the Internet to download a web browser. Microsoft’s “solution” to this is to offer Internet Explorer at no charge on a CD-ROM. Full details are on the Microsoft Blog plus response from the European Union (EU). Yep, this is…
Mozilla has released the eleventh stability and security update for the current Firefox 3 browser. This release has 9 security updates plus fixes for several bugs related to the SQLite powered Firefox storage system have been patched to prevent some conditions that may result in a corrupted Library. For more information about What’s New in Firefox 3.0.11, check out the Release Notes. Current Firefox 3 users may obtain Firefox 3.0.11 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…
As if the Gates-Seinfeld ads (Shoe Store & New Family) weren’t odd, dumb, idiotic, etc, Microsoft has released two Internet Explorer 8 commercials. F.O.M.S. (Fear of Missing Something) and S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. (Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still). Thankfully these are not as long as the Gates-Seinfeld ads, but they aren’t much better. It seems Microsoft is trying to target the social ‘market’ of the Internet with these two commercials: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyQolo0Xdqw&feature=player_embedded] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjUzzxAKs20&feature=player_embedded] If there is one comment from The Microsoft Blog that really sums up this latest campaign it would have to be this one from Frustrated: It is amazing they…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.0.6 release on Wednesday Almost 300 resolved bugs- check out Fligtar’s moxie Dashboard Redesign of AMO from top to bottom with our first Firefox extension (Add-on Collector) and the Collections feature! Compatibility with 3.5 up to 72% thanks to Sun updating the Java Console entry- should be up another 3-4% once they complete testing of the new Java Console AMO 5.0.7 release includes Contributions and Tagging, launching on 6/30 FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.11 found a blocker, had to respin re-shipped to beta on Friday aiming for a 3pm Thursday release Firefox 3.0.12 code freeze in a little over…
Editor’s Note: We have been doing these release recaps now for nearly a year. The first release recap was on Sunday, June 8, 2008. In September 2008 we moved the Release Recaps from Sundays to Saturdays. Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.0.11 – June 11th Future Release Firefox 3.0.12 – July 15th Firefox 3.5RC1 – Early June 2009