Posts Tagged With: updates
· July 22, 2008 at 5:00 am · Firefox News
Firefox 3 has been launched with great success, so now it is time to start looking at Firefox 3.1. Right now it appears Firefox 3.1 Alpha should be released July 25th with a beta coming as soon as early August. It doesn’t look like Firefox 3.1 will just be fixes though, there are a lot of new features coming our way too…
Here are a few of them that are targeted for Alpha 1:
- worker threads (under review)
- offline storage / local storage (under review)
- downloadable fonts (kinda maybe)
- native JSON (under review)
- WHATWG <canvas> text API
- Awesomebar improvements (need review gavin, shepherding)
- border image (under review)
- media queries (under review)
- bulk tagging
- ctrl-tab
Will Firefox 3.1 create as much excitement around the world as Firefox 3 did?
· July 18, 2008 at 5:53 am · Firefox News, Firefox Settings
Has Firefox 3.0.1 given you trouble? Well it sound like you might want to contact the extension’s author to make sure thy are using the right compatibility range. Once again Basil does a great job at explaining this in a way that should make sense to us all.
When add-on authors publish their add-on they declare the compatibility range for an add-on. It typically looks like “2.0 to 3.0.*” - meaning that at minimum, this add-on requires Firefox 2.0 and works with any maintenance release of Firefox 3.0. (End of the compatibility range is also called the maxVersion).
Some add-on authors have erroneously used “3.0″ as their maxVersion so when users with these add-ons upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.0.1, the add-on gets disabled. We encourage these add-on authors to use “3.0.*” as their maxVersion.
So shoot your favorite extension authors an e-mail and ask them to get this fixed, or check to see if this might be the problem. Another suggestion for people with lots of problems would be to try running Firefox with a new profile or Safe Mode. In Safe Mode, you can reset some settings or disable extensions and themes that might be the source of the issue. By comparing Firefox behavior in normal mode to its behavior in Safe Mode with various items disabled, you may be able to diagnose issues.
· April 28, 2008 at 6:23 am · Firefox News, Firefox Security
One of my favorite Mozilla personalities, Asa Dotzler posted an article the other day debunking a lot of F.U.D. about Firefox and how it is the “new security threat” we should all be worried about, according to an article on PC World’s web site. Not often do I sit and read, thinking to myself, “Haha, yeah booyyy!” and “Take that!” but Asa did a great job at taking apart this guy’s argument.
You can check out Asa’s thoughts and the PC World article and make your own decision though. In the red corner from PC World we have Stuart J. Johnson…
“Many people are switching from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Though that might make them feel more secure, the shift has also opened new doors for bad guys.”
In the blue corner, from Mozilla we have Asa Dotzler!
“Stuart J. Johnston, over at PC World’s Bugs and Fixes column, does a fabulous job confusing and unnecessarily alarming Firefox users, while at the same time conflating the valuable contributions being made by the ethical security researcher community with the malicious activities of “bad guy” hackers. That’s quite an accomplishment in just 500 words.”
Who is your money on?
· April 17, 2008 at 10:05 am · Firefox Security
Just got my update a short time ago, have you gotten yours. Looks like Firefox 2.0.0.1.4 was released yesterday afternoon, and if you have automatic updates enabled in Firefox, you should be getting it yourself in 24-48 hours. This looks to be like a critical security update because only one change mentioned in the release notes. Wasn’t rolled in together with any other fixes.
Here are the details from Mozilla:
Fixes for security problems in the JavaScript engine described in MFSA 2008-15 (CVE-2008-1237) introduced a stability problem, where some users experienced crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. This is being fixed primarily to address stability concerns. We have no demonstration that this particular crash is exploitable but are issuing this advisory because some crashes of this type have been shown to be exploitable in the past.
To update you can activate your automatic updates, go to help and then “check for updates” or download the most recent version at getfirefox.com.
· April 3, 2008 at 6:25 am · Firefox News
The last of the Firefox 3 betas has hit the scene, and at this point it is hard to believe they are still finding things to improve on. So where are the improvements from Beta 4 to Beta 5 of Firefox 3? Well this is what Mozilla says:
Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes more than 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.
Be sure to check out all of the release notes, and to take a full tour - Mozilla Links has you covered yet again. So if this is the latest of the betas, what does come next? The next release should be a release candidate version which will be what we can expect to see in the final process. With the release candidates they will be having more people test things out and kind of polishing little things here and there.
· March 24, 2008 at 6:30 am · Firefox News
So should you or should you not be using Firefox 3 yet? I would say for 90% of the population or people using Firefox, no. You should at least wait for the release candidate versions or the final version. The fact of the mater is, even though Firefox 3 looks good it still is not done yet. The idea of bringing this topic up started after reading a post over at Cybernet News:
There is a lot of talking going around the Internet about Firefox 3 Beta being ready for mass usage. It’s because of an article by Reuters where the creators of Firefox supposedly told them that the Firefox 3 Beta is ready for everyone to use after months of being in development.
So I thought I would do what I can to help spread the words too about Firefox 3 being nice, pretty but not ready for prime time just yet. Just to give you an idea of how long you should wait - I haven’t even replaced Firefox 2 yet. Personally I’ll wait till it goes into the "release candidate" versions so that I can get ahead of the curve with some of your questions about it.
Also major "shame shame" on Reuters for not doing their homework on this.
· March 12, 2008 at 10:58 am · Firefox Themes
Looking for Firefox 3 Themes? Check out the Best 5 Firefox Themes HERE!
Mozilla, do we have a problem?
I have a feeling I am not the only one who is wondering about this one. What will happen to all the current Firefox themes once Firefox 3 goes final? It seems like a handful of theme designers are having issues with getting their themes to look right with the new Firefox 3 interface. Will they all have to start from scratch again?
The above screen shot was taken from TwisterMc - who is describing his own issues getting the iPox theme to work correctly.
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