by James Anderson on November 2, 2009
The first beta of Firefox 3.6 has been made available for download by Mozilla. The final release be ready later this year, but testers, developers and early adopters can get 3.6b1 now. The newest Firefox browser contains few new features; most changes from the 3.5 version are behind the scenes enhancements for speed and code efficiency, such as the JavaScript rendering engine.
There are some new features, including built-in support for Mozillas Personas lite browser skins, new alerts to users for outdated plug-ins like Flash Player or QuickTime required by sites, and support for full screen video display for videos embedded with the video HTML tag.
by James Anderson on July 28, 2009
The Mozilla team has posted several Firefox 4.0 screenshots or mockups, as they call them, which show what they are planning for the new 4.0 version of its browser.
The first screenshot that you see shows off a new “Bookmarks Widget” that could serve as a replacement for the Bookmarks Menu and Bookmarks Toolbar, but of course you could always enable them since the functionality would remain for those that love the two ‘old’ bookmark features.
by Wesley Roberts on July 17, 2009
Mozilla has released an update to FireFox 3.5 which is being presented as version 3.5.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The update closes a major security vulnerability that was disclosed several days ago that could lead to malicious code being executed by simply browsing a web site.
The new update also improves stability of the browser and the launch speed of the browser on Windows systems. A complete list of changes can be found at Mozilla Bugzilla.
by Michael Horton on July 8, 2009
FireFox 3.5 is a very strong contender in the browser market but one feature it lacks that Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 has is multi-process browsing. Multi-process browsing gives the browser ultimate stability and performance for computers with multiple processors or CPU cores by having each page or tab, run in a separate process. This means each tab could theoretically could be on separate processors or cores giving you a performance boost over having just one process (the browser) running on just one CPU or core.
We gain not only performance from this type of process separation, we also gain security because if one page ends up being malicious its process can be closed and is segregated from the remaining browser processes.
by Wesley Roberts on June 30, 2009
Mozilla has officially released the Firefox 3.5 web browser today, it’s latest and most feature rich browser to date. The new browser brings us a revamped JavaScript engine for faster page loading, many new features such as the ability to browse the web in private, and HTML5 support.
Looking at the Firefox 3.5 Release Notes we see the major new features;
by Michael Horton on June 27, 2009
After Firefox 3.5 RC2 being released, just last week, Mozilla Labs will be unveiling the Firefox 3.5 Final version tomorrow!
The release of Firefox 3.5 comes six months later than originally planned. The delay was mostly because of the amount of bugs that were found along the way, as well as revamping the JavaScript engine to compete with Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8.
Firefox 3.5 provides us many new features and enhancements, one of the greatest being the JavaScript engine which is MUCH faster than previous generations of Firefox. We also gain private browsing like what Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 already have.
