Mozilla has pushed out an emergency update to Firefox 8.0.0 on November 21st to select users. This update addressed two top crash bugs in Firefox 8.0.0: Bug 699134 – RoboForm versions 7.6.2 and OLDER on all platforms crashes Firefox 8.0 – RoboForm 7.6.3 which was just released is fine with Firefox 8.0. Bug 700835 – Firefox 8 and up crash with Apple’s latest Java updates for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 closing tab/window containing Java applet – Mac Only Based on the version of Firefox you are currently running and what platform (Windows, Mac or Linux) you are on will…
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Firefox 10 Aurora (release date January 31st, 2012) has added some new integrated web development tools. Some of these look similar to the current Firebug extension. For more details see Firefox to get more powerful web development tools on mozilla links.
On November 15, 2011, Mozilla announced, the Electrolysis project (e10s) will be placed on hold for the foreseeable future. What exactly is e10s? It is a lot of things that improve the performance, security and even stability of Firefox. The first part of e10s was back with Firefox 3.6.4 (May 2010) with Out Of Process Plugins (OOPP). OOPP introduced the plugin container, which allowed plugins such as Flash, QuickTime, etc to run in their own process away from that of Firefox. OOPP prevented a crashing plugin from taking the entire browser down with it. Also part of the current e10s…
As mentioned last month, Mozilla is dropping XUL (eXtensible User interface Language, an XML grammar used by Mozilla to define user interfaces for Firefox and Thunderbird) in favor of using Android’s own Native user interface. This move was to increase performance and handling of Firefox on Android devices. Mozilla has now announced “Flash is now a supported plugin in forthcoming native Firefox for Android.” This despite the fact that Adobe announced on November 9th, 2011 it is discontinuing Flash development on mobile platforms. To clarify though, by “forthcoming native Firefox for Android” Mozilla means Firefox for Android 11 (release date:…
Just Released Firefox 9 Beta 2 – November 18th Coming Soon Firefox 8.0.1 – Week of November 21st December 20th Firefox 3.6.25 Firefox 9 Final Release Firefox 9 for Android Final Release Firefox 10 Beta (10.0b1)* Firefox 11 Aurora (10.0a2)* Future Releases January 31st Firefox 3.6.26 Firefox 10 Final Release Firefox 10 for Android Final Release Firefox 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Firefox 12 Aurora (12.0a2)* * 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….
Firefox 9.0 Beta 2 has been pushed to the Beta Channel. Beta 1 users can update via Help > About Firefox…
As mentioned today on our Firefox Blog, support for Firefox 3.6 will be likely ending in late April 2012. However, the Enterprise/Thunderbird/ExtendedSupport has not been refined yet. It still states, We intend to conclude on this subject within two weeks in order to be able to offer Thunderbird ESR 1.0 at the same time that Thunderbird 8 or 9 is released. Thunderbird 3.1 will be declared end-of-life 12 weeks after the release of Thunderbird ESR 1.0. Given that Firefox (though not yet official) has decided to make Firefox 10 the first ESR, it would seem logical that Thunderbird would follow…
Some new developments since the Firefox 3.6 Support Ending Early 2012 article was posted last month. The Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal has been more refined now. If the assumption that the first Firefox ESR is going to be based of off Firefox 10 (release date January 31st, 2012) then allowing for a 12-week ‘grace period’ would put the end date of Firefox 3.6 support on April 24th, 2012 (also the date Firefox 12 will be released). This also 13-months after the release (March 21, 2011) of Firefox 4, twice the support time of the standard 6-month after release of next major version time…
Bad_Attitude commented about the Starting with a Fresh Profile post. They mentioned that they move their Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts as well. I am not really certain what percentage of Firefox users use Greasemonkey and/or Stylish scripts and didn’t even think about porting those over. I do use many Greasemonkey scripts and may be one or two Stylish scripts. So, I’ve added directions on how to move over your Greasemonkey and/or Stylish scripts. In the Starting Over section I’ve added a new step which involved installing and using the eCleaner add-on prior to installing new add-ons. Since users are porting…
Much like Firefox, there are some unofficial 64-Bit builds for Thunderbird. They can be found here. However, at this time the most latest version is Thunderbird 7.0.0 (release is 8.0.0). As with any other developmental build, use at your own risk and ideally with a separate profile (this where ProfileMaanger can come in handy). Thanks to Bob Slim for the tip.