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In: Firefox
19 May 2009After weeks of delays associated with the most recent two Firefox 3.5 beta’s, Mozilla is now on track to deliver Firefox 3.5 release candidate (RC) 1 in June.
“We’re setting an aggressive code freeze target of next Wednesday, May 20th for Firefox 3.5 RC” said Firefox Director Mike Beltzner. This puts “the RC release somewhere in [...]
In: Firefox
29 Apr 2009Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) and is available in over 70 languages.
This beta includes a faster TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, enhancements to private browsing, and location aware browsing.
For a full list of changes you can read the release notes.
Existing beta users should have the upload pushed out to them, [...]
In: Firefox
17 Apr 2009Mozilla is looking at dropping support for Windows 2000 and versions of Windows XP without at least SP3 installed in early 2010.
The idea is hardly a surprise, as the extended support period offered by Microsoft for the operating systems is ending on 13th July 2010, and would see the requirements for Gecko 1.9.2 raised – [...]
In: Firefox
2 Feb 2009Mozilla has delayed Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 for a second time, citing numerous bugs in the browsers new JavaScript engine.
Last Wednesday’s status meeting for 3.1 reveale there are still 18 bugs remaining. The meeting minutes show the extent of the delay. “At this time, we don’t have a good estimate for when we’ll be done”.
After [...]
In: Firefox
19 Nov 2008I’m sure some of you may be frustrated by Firefox 3.1’s new tab behaviour when pressing Ctrl + Tab. No longer does it just browse through the tabs, but instead it switches to the most recently viewed tab (much like Windows Alt + Tab.
Thankfully, you can turn the new Ctrl + Tab behaviour off, and [...]