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Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:30 am
by ckit
Firefox 3.5 RC1 build 1 (unsigned) here:
http://quality.mozilla.org/blogs/firefo ... ux-and-mac
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090612 Firefox/3.5 - Build ID: 20090612072440
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:52 am
by ckit
Firefox 3.5 RC1 build 2 (unsigned) here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... es/build2/
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090615 Firefox/3.5 - Build ID: 20090615172843
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:43 pm
by ckv
Mozilla is runing an "Firefox 3.5 for 35 Days" campaign, where every day for 35 days they post about one new feature in Firefox 3.5.
The stuff they post about is mainly meant for developers, but there's still lots of interesting stuff for the rest of us too.
The 35 days site is best viewed with the Firefox 3.5 beta 99 or newer. Otherwise the feature demos will not work.
Firefox 3.5 for 35 Days: http://hacks.mozilla.org/
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:00 pm
by XnTriq
Thanks for the hint!
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:13 pm
by ckv
Firefox 3.5 RC2 candidates
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... andidates/
Candidates of release candidate... :D
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:48 pm
by marsh
From their department of redundancy department.
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:47 pm
by ckit
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:00 pm
by XnTriq
- Lifehacker
- Mozilla.org: Add-ons for Firefox ยป Collections
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:17 pm
by ckv
Thunderbird 3 was released a week ago, Firefox 3.5.6 / Firefox 3.0.16 will be released today and Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 should be released on thursday. If Firefox team gets all
3.6 RC blockers fixed by tomorrow, beta 5 will be skipped and the RC is released ASAP.
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:44 pm
by ckv
Apparently, Firefox 3.6 will be released today. You can already get it form Mozilla ftp server if you really want to.
Spite of the
personas theme thing there's not much new in 3.6. There's a new "out of date plugin" alert thingy, Firefox startup should be faster and javascript performance should be better... That's about it.
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:24 pm
by ckv
Mozilla will sidestep from it's regular updating scheme and will introduce a new major feature, out of process plugins, in Firefox 3.6.4.
Out of process plugins is an transparent, stability and security feature in Firefox. Basically plugins will run in their own process so that when some third party plugin, like Flash, crashes for the thousandthd time it wont take the whole browser down with it.
Firefox 3.6.4 Schedule
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:42 pm
by JohnFredC
This is good news... but for me the biggest FireFox problem is memory usage. Man, what a hog.
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:18 pm
by ckv
Not so surprisingly
serval OOPP issues were found after the beta was released and the final release may be delayed.
JohnFredC wrote:This is good news... but for me the biggest FireFox problem is memory usage. Man, what a hog.
Must agree with this one. And it looks like it's not going to get better any soon. As Mozilla is now focusing on improving the performance. If only Mozilla would use the same amount of resources to improve memory usage as they use on improving startup performance...
On the other hand, if I have to choose between performance and memory usage, I will go with the performance... Or change browser.
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:30 am
by ckv
Firefox 3.6.4 was finally released yesterday, after been being delayed for two months.
And next Firefox version will be confusingly called 3.6.6.
Re: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (opensource freeware)
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:00 pm
by XnTriq
Straight from the horse's mouth: The only countries with
less than one percent usage of IE6 are Norway (Opera, of course) and Finland
Coding Horror:
Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x (18/Mar/2005)