There has been a pretty cool update to Firefox in the past 24 hours. If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will no longer affect the rest of your browser. You will be able to reload the page, restart the plugin and try again.
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Firefox 3.6 Has Been Released!
Firefox 3.6 Released!
The latest version of your favorite browser has been released. Firefox 3.6 is now available via Mozilla’s web site. The big update this time around is the built in support for Firefox Personas.
Need more? Here’s the full list of new features that Firefox 3.6 brings:
- Available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
- Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox’s appearance with a single click.
- Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
- Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
- Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
- The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
- Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
- Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
- Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
- Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
More Firefox 3.6 Tips, Tutorials and Help!
- Enable Visual Tab Switcher in Firefox 3.6
- Firefox 3.6 Fix – Open New Tabs in Far Right
- Top 10 Personas Backgrounds for Firefox!
- Firefox 3.6 Portable Edition is Now Available via Lifehacker
Overall, not a bad upgrade. If your Firefox has not updated it’s self yet, you can always pick up the update at Mozilla’s web site. What do you think of Firefox 3.6? Love it? Hate it? More interested in Firefox 4? Leave you feedback in the comments!
Don’t Wait – Make Your Own Firefox 4
Are you one of those who can hardly wait for the newest version of Firefox to be released? Well, I have found yet another theme that will at least help you pretend you are using it.
Give the experimental theme, Fx4 a shot. It will transform your browser to what has been pitched as the new look and feel for Firefox 4.
Update: Firefox 3.5 First Fixes Are Ready
The first update to Firefox 3.5 has just been released. To get the update right now, all you need to do is go to Help > “Check for Updates…” in your browser. So what exactly is this new update fixing?
Both the slow startups for Windows users and the JavaScript memory corruption flaws have been fixed. After the update is in place, if you set javascript.options.jit.content to false via about:config, you can now go back in and set it to true again.
For more changes and updates in Firefox 3.5.1 – be sure to check out the release notes.
Firefox 3.1 to 3.5 Version News
Have you gotten Firefox 3.0.7 yet? It was just released yesterday. To pick up that update, (if not setup to get it automatically) just go to Help in the menu bar, then “Check for Updates…”.
Firefox 3.0.7 fixes five security holes, so it is an important update to get.
- URL spoofing with invisible control characters
- Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
- XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect
- Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
- Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Along with those, there are a number of different bug fixes too.
To help better reflect the number of changes coming to Firefox 3.1, Mozilla has decided to rename it Firefox 3.5. However, the next Firefox 3 beta will still be released under the 3.1 name. That should cover all the important information – but if you want to learn more, check out the status meeting notes via the Mozilla.org wiki.
TwitterFox Rocks
After posting a review of Twitbin last week, I got a lot of people e-mailing me to check out another favorite Twitter tool in Firefox called TwitterFox. This add-on for Firefox notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter.
Isn’t that what Twitbin did? Yes, but Twitbin lived in your sidebar. TwitterFox lives in your status bar. The ever-so-small icon in the status bar will notify you when your friends update their own Twitter profiles.
Some of the features added to TwitterFox 1.7.6 include:
- Supported Firefox 3.1b2
- Added a context menu to each tweets which has: copy, re-tweet, open this tweet in new tab , delete tweet
- Auto extract is.gd and bit.ly links.
- Added Mark all as read menu item to main context menu.
- Increased contrast of background color of read/unread messages.
- Added in-reply-to-status-id parameter for status update.
- Added da-DK, th-TH, vi-VN, ar-SA, ar, and kw-GB translations.
- Bug fixes.
Need your first Twitter friend, or want to follow me and my Firefoxing ways?
Follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/mitchkeeler
As you can see, there is a lot to love here for any Firefox/Twitter fan boy (or girl). You can pickup TwiterFox via the Firefox Add-ons site or the official web site at TwitterFox.net.
Mr Uptime Gets Updated
Always hate to see it, but you know it happens. The good sites always go down first. Sure, maybe they weren’t ready for all that traffic. They had so much to live for though! Need an extension to let you know when any web site is back up and running? If so, it might be time to call Mr Uptime (who is now ready to use finally with Firefox 3).
This is an extension I mentioned here before. It will keep trying to reach the web site in the background while you continue to surf to other sites. As soon as the web site in question is back, Mr Uptime will give you a tap on the shoulder to let you know. Here are a few more words on its features.
- Status change
Watch when the server status code changes from an error to OK (HTTP status code 200). - Keywords
Set a keyword that the website should or should not contain to be considered ok. - Time to watch
Set how long you want to keep checking a website. After this time it will be removed from the watch list even if it hasn’t become available. - Notifications
Choose to open the website in a new tab or a new window when it becomes available. You can also optionally get an alert dialog box to notify you when a website is working again. - Easy to use and discreet
The interface will not clutter your Firefox window. The toolbar is only shown when an error is encountered or when you choose to open it yourself. You will not get another toolbar taking up valuable space in Firefox.
You can learn more about the Mr Uptime add-on via the Firefox Add-ons page for it or visit the official site at mruptime.pingdom.com.
Social Network Updating with PingFire
Ping.fm makes it simple to update all of your social network pages in a snap. The only thing that would make it even easier to use, is if there was a Firefox add-on based around it. PingFire is that tool.
Ping.fm is a cool tool in its own right. It allows you to updates twitter, jaiku, tumblr, pownce, facebook, myspace and more all in one single place. This PingFire extension just adds onto that functionality – by allowing to to use PingFire from anywhere.
PingFire supports all of Ping.fm’s contents types, your custom triggers, as well as Ping.fm’s posting shortcuts. It also includes a “Quote” feature which post the selected text and the URL to Ping.fm.
You can pick up this handy status updating tool from the Firefox Add-ons web site.
New FirefoxFacts.com Layout and Design
In case you missed it, here is the new FirefoxFacts.com layout and design I have been working on for the past few weeks. Let me know what you think!
It is live now, if you haven’t checked it out yet. I have added a lot of nice features, fixed a lot of design flaws and hopefully, all the big changes have been done. Will probably be doing a few more small tweaks here and there – but overall I am pretty happy with it.
