Web browser news as it happens
In: Firefox
25 Jan 2010Firefox 3.6 has introduced a new tab behaviour, where new tabs are opened next to your currently selected tab, while Firefox 3.5 and older would open new tabs at the end of all your tabs.
If you don’t like this new behaviour, you can change it back to the way it was. Simply follow these steps:
Go [...]
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22 Jan 2010As announced yesterday, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 right as expected at 9:30 PST.
Firefox includes many new features, including:
Support for a new type of theme called Personas
Checks for out-of-date plugins
Full screen support for HTML5 <video> tags
More HTML5 element support
Improved JavaScript speed and stability
Plus more
A full list of changes in Firefox 3.6 can be found in [...]
In: Firefox
19 Jan 2010Mozilla has pushed out a second release candidate for Firefox 3.6.
The update is said to close a security flaw, of which very little details are available.
Current Firefox 3.6 testers will receive the update automatically, or it can be downloaded from the Firefox Beta website.
Firefox 3.6 final was expected today, but is now expected on January [...]
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12 Jan 2010Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). This means the browser now contains the final set of changes and new features, and will now only concentrate on bugs that would stop the browser from being released.
Firefox 3.6 RC1 fixes almost 100 bugs since Beta 5, but there are no other new features [...]
In: Firefox
21 Dec 2009And just when we were hoping to see Firefox 3.6 before Christmas, Mozilla has pushed out another beta release for the browser.
This update fixes over 100 bugs from the last beta, and is an automatic update for current Firefox 3.6 Beta users.
Firefox 3.6 final is now not expected before early 2010.
A full list of changes [...]
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27 Nov 2009Mozilla have pushed out the latest Firefox 3.6 beta, taking it to beta 4.
The update mostly fixes existing bugs (131 to be exact), but also includes support the HTML5 file API.
A full list of changes for Firefox 3.6 can be found in the release notes, while the browser can be downloaded from the Firefox beta [...]
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18 Nov 2009In it’s third release in two weeks, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 beta 3.
The update includes 84 bug fixes, but gone, surprisingly is support for Windows 7 features, including tab preview and jump lists – perhaps the most anticipated feature of Firefox 3.6. The feature is now expected to reappear in Firefox 3.7.
This release is [...]
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12 Nov 2009Just 10 days after the release of Firefox 3.6 beta 1, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 beta 2.
Over 190 bugs has been fixed since beta 1, dramatically increasing the browsers performance.
A new feature has emerged in this beta, as a new mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox (specifically DLL files in Windows).
A [...]
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2 Nov 2009Mozilla have announced the release of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1. The new release includes a slew of new changes:
Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
Open, native video can now be displayed full [...]
In: Firefox
22 Oct 2009Mozilla have announced that they will support the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) from Firefox 3.6.
Firefox will be the first browser to support WOFF, but support in other browsers is expected to follow.
The WOFF has several advantages over current TrueType and OpenType formats in that it is compressed.
One example given by Mozilla Hacks shows a [...]