Mozilla has released the first beta for Firefox 4.0 (formerly Firefox 3.7). 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. Firefox 4 Beta 1 includes dozens of major features and improvements – by testing them early we’ll be able to respond to your feedback for future versions of Firefox. Once you download Firefox 4 Beta 1, you’re part of our beta program and will receive regular updates as more features launch. We’ve included a Feedback Add-On that helps you let us know what…
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We recently rounded up 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which was accompanied by a giveaway. Entries required a comment with your favorite Dropbox tip, trick or hack you use. From that massive collection of entries we bring you 10 [more] killer Dropbox tips and tricks to make the most of this amazing app. Source: 10 [More] Killer Dropbox Tips and Tricks | Web.AppStorm http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/data-management-roundups/10-more-killer-dropbox-tips-and-tricks/
Just Released Firefox 3.6.6 – June 26, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.11 – July 20, 2010 Firefox 3.6.7 – July 20, 2010 Firefox 4.0b1 – TBD Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative
Pay close attention to the weather report on the radio at the beginning of this Circle K commercial. Describes our current weather perfectly.
Quote “Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.” ‘All IBM employees will be asked to use it as their default browser,’ Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and Linux at IBM’s Software Group, said in a blog post Thursday. ‘Firefox is enterprise-ready, and we’re ready to adopt it for our enterprise.’…” July 1, 2010Source: Deep Tech – CNET NewsMore http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20009387-264.html
“…Several readers reported to heise Security that Norton Antivirus and Internet Security from Symantec both issued a security alert and pushed various files into quarantine after they installed the latest Firefox update which in turn caused Firefox to malfunction….” The update is 3.6.6 28 June 2010 Source: The H Security: News and Features More http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Norton-produces-false-alarm-after-Firefox-update-1030099.html
Update: Thanks to Ken Saunders for the suggestion to use 7-Zip instead of WinRAR. Using 7-Zip greatly simplifies this process. I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.7a6pe today (more on this in another post). Everything was going fairly well until I started to move my extensions over from Firefox 3.6 profile. I was going to start with Nightly Tester Tools, but found out it is only compatible up to Firefox 3.7a5. Simple enough, I’ll just apply the Overriding Add-ons Compatibility Check Tweak I wrote earlier this year. That doesn’t seem to work with Firefox 3.7 or it may be related to…
Just Released Firefox 3.5.10 – June 22, 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – June 22, 2010 Firefox 3.6.6 – June 26, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.11 – July 20, 2010 Firefox 3.6.7 – July 20, 2010 Firefox 4.0b1 – TBD Firefox 4.0rc1 – October 2010 Tentative
Mozilla has released the fourth (there was no Firefox 3.6.1 or 3.6.5) update for Firefox 3.6.6 on June 26. This update addressed issues with new plugin handler causing issues with the immensely popular Facebook game Farmville. See bug 574905 for full details. Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated. Users should be prompted soon to update, but can obtain this update via Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates…For complete list of changes and more information, please see the Firefox 3.6.6 Release Notes….
Had a chance today to download, install and even crash (sort of) Firefox 3.7a6pre aka Minefield. When the final release comes out some time around year end it will be numbered as Firefox 4. The biggest change in Firefox 3.7/4.0 is the user interface (UI). The new UI reminds me a lot of Chrome and takes a little getting use to. Click for full size image This is the ‘default’ UI when you first load up Minefield. Here a few of the notable changes: The ‘Minefield’ Button – In the released version of Firefox 4 this will be labeled as…