September 7th was a major release day for Mozilla. We saw new versions of Thunderbird 3.0 and 3.1 as well as newly released updates on all 3 active versions of Firefox (3.5, 3.6 and the developmental 4.0). Firefox 3.6.9 has been released and fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6: Introduced support for the X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP response header. Site owners can use this to mitigate clickjacking attacks by ensuring that their content is not embedded into other sites. Fixed several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. See complete release notes. User should soon be prompted to…
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Firefox 3.5.12 was released on September 7th. 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. If you’re still using Firefox 3.0.x, this version is no longer supported and may contain security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Firefox 3.5 by downloading Firefox 3.5.12 from here It also appears there is going to be one more update after all. Firefox 3.5.13 is due out in mid October 2010.
Mozilla has released the fifth beta for Firefox 4.0 on September 7th (along with updates to Thunderbird and other versions of Firefox). This release is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended as a preview release for web application developers and the testing community. New stuff in this release: Support for the new proposed Audio Data API Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over…
Part of Mozilla’s mega-releases on September 7th, Mozilla Messaging has release the third update for Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.1.3 Release Notes. Further an update for Thunderbird 3.0 has also been released. For more information and to download please see the Thunderbird 3.0.7 Release Notes. Next up in mid October will be Thunderbird 3.0.8 and 3.1.4.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0b5 – September 7, 2010 Future Release Firefox 4.0rc1 – Mid/Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
Just Released Firefox 4.0b4 – August 24, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0b5 – September 6, 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
Mozilla has released the fourth beta for Firefox 4.0 on August 24th. This release is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended as a preview release for web application developers and the testing community. New stuff in this release: Firefox Sync is now included by default. A new feature gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped. An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations. Firefox now supports the HTML5 video “buffered” property. See the complete changelist from the previous beta. For more info see the…
Hard to believe it has been 15-years since Windows 95 was released. The operating system which introduced the ‘Start’ Menu, which forever changed the way people shut-down their computers. The Seattle Pi/Microsoft Blog have a tribute to Windows 95 including several rather odd marketing commercials.. The Microsoft Blog: Happy 15th birthday, Windows 95
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b4 – August 23, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 3.5.12 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 3.6.9 – September 7, 2010 Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
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