Just Released Firefox 28 Firefox for Android 28 Firefox 24.4.0 ESR Firefox 29 Beta (29.0b1) Firefox 30 Aurora (30.0a2) Future Releases April 29th Firefox 29 Firefox for Android 29 Firefox 24.5.0 ESR Firefox 30 Beta (30.0b1)* Firefox 31 Aurora (31.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
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The answer (which might surprise you) will be coming later this weekend.
Mozilla released an update for the Thunderbird 24.x branch on March 18th, 2014. Thunderbird 24.4.0 addressed these issues: Security fixes can be found here Several fixes to improve handling of BCC when replying to messages (bug 968270, Bug 969358) Depending on update settings, users should automatically be prompted to update to Thunderbird 24.4.0 or may do so manually via Help > About Thunderbird or downloading and installing via the getthunderbird.com site. The next scheduled update will be Thunderbird 24.5.0 on April 29, 2014.
Mozilla released the next update for Firefox Desktop and Mobile (Android) users on Tuesday, March 18th. Firefox 28 for Desktop and Mobile included these updates: Desktop Mobile NEW VP9 video decoding implemented Mac OS X: Notification Center support for web notifications Horizontal HTML5 audio/video volume control Support for Opus in WebM CHANGED Now that spdy/3 is implemented support for spdy/2 has been removed and servers without spdy/3 will negotiate to http/1 without any penalty DEVELOPER Support for MathML 2.0 ‘mathvariant’ attribute Background thread hang reporting Support for multi-line flexbox in layout FIXED Various security fixes UNRESOLVED Echo cancellation on apprtc.appspot.com…
Just Released None Coming Soon Thunderbird ESR 24.4.0 Thunderbird 24.4.0 Thunderbird 29 Beta (29.0b1) > 24.5.0 * Thunderbird 30 Earlybird (30.0a2) > 24.6.0 * Future Releases April 29th Thunderbird ESR 24.5.0 Thunderbird 24.5.0 Thunderbird 30 Beta (30.0b1) > 24.6.0 * Thunderbird 31 Earlybird (31.0a2) > 24.7.0 * * As part of Rapid Release, dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds are for code merge, actual release dates may vary by several days. Further Earlybird and Beta builds follow the current Gecko branch numbering while the actual release build follows the current ESR branch numbering.
Just Released None Coming This Week Firefox 28 Firefox for Android 28 Firefox 24.4.0 ESR Firefox 29 Beta (29.0b1)* Firefox 30 Aurora (30.0a2)* Future Releases April 29th Firefox 29 Firefox for Android 29 Firefox 24.5.0 ESR Firefox 30 Beta (30.0b1)* Firefox 31 Aurora (31.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
I often open links in new tabs and come back to them later without noticing that it never quits loading so this may be handy.I installed it this morning and it has kicked in a couple times. “Some pages will not finish loading because of internal problems or the use of ad-blockers and other filtering tools.This extension stops pages from loading indefinitely and slowing the browser.” Address : addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/killspinners/
On the Firefox Future Releases blog today, Johnathan Nightingale (VP Firefox) announced that Mozilla has decided that adopting Firefox for ‘Metro’ is not a battle worth fighting. The main reason is the overall lack of interest in having a ‘Metro’ version of Firefox. In late 2012, when I started up the Firefox for Metro team (I know that’s not what Microsoft calls it anymore, but it remains how we talk about it in Mozilla), it looked like the next battleground for the Web. Windows is a massive ecosystem and Microsoft pushes its new platforms hard. At first, it looked like…