From the Up2Date dept.:
Firefox 3.5.4 fixes the following issues:
Several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528)
After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites would not load all images and styles without pressing reload (see bug 480619)
Published Oct 28, 2009 - 01:02 PM
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From the Sold dept.:
Raindrop is a new exploration by the team responsible for Thunderbird to explore new ways to use open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.
Raindrop's mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend's blog or as part of a social networking site.
Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).
Published Oct 23, 2009 - 07:43 AM
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From the dept.:
...Because of the difficulties some users have had entirely removing the add-on, and because of the severity of the risk it represents if not disabled, we contacted Microsoft today to indicate that we were looking to disable the extension and plugin for all users via our blocklisting mechanism. Microsoft agreed with the plan, and we put the blocklist entry live immediately.
Published Oct 18, 2009 - 06:22 PM
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From the Glitz dept.:
Mozilla has announced that it plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up the cluttered browser.
...The change will bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser, and also free up space for the actual page window - making it more suitable for people using netbooks with smaller screens.
From the Kick 'em When They're Down dept.:
...Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, and Harvey Anderson, the foundation's general counsel, have both blogged about the proposal, with both of them stating that according to them, it's not good enough. They mostly trip over the fact that selecting another default browser in the ballot screen does not automatically remove the Internet Explorer icons from the desktop and Windows 7 taskbar
To remove these icons, you either have to delete them manually, or uninstall Internet Explorer altogether, as will be detailed how to in the ballot screen. I find this a perfectly acceptable setup, as I see no reason why installing application Abc should remove my shortcuts to application Xyz. I would find it highly inappropriate for a ballot screen to magically remove my shortcuts.
Published Aug 19, 2009 - 02:33 PM
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From the Mr Fix It dept.:
A day after Slashdot reports about a self-inflicted vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, Mozilla releases 3.5.1. It addresses that security issue, but also fixes the annoying slow-startup on Windows.
Published Jul 17, 2009 - 10:35 AM
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From the Expecting Chrome Release Announcement in 3...2...1 dept.:
Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.
Published Jun 30, 2009 - 12:37 PM
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From the Sweet New Shiny Stuff dept.:
With Jetpack, we’re building upon our experience over the last four years empowering a community of more than 8,000 developers to produce more than 12,000 add-ons to imagine and build the next generation of the add-ons platform. We want to grow our community of developers by orders of magnitude through making add-on creation much more accessible, and yet more powerful by developing it as an extensible platform for innovation itself. Many useful Jetpack Feature’s can be written in under a dozen lines of code.
Specifically, Jetpack will be an exploration in using Web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS and Javascript), with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.
Published May 20, 2009 - 06:51 PM
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From the Blurring the Lines dept.:
Eighteen months ago, we introduced an experimental project called Prism with the goal to “to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur.”
Published May 11, 2009 - 09:33 AM
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