Archive for June, 2007

Firefox 3 Alpha 6 Released

Bit deelayed but anyways. Firefox 3 Alpha 6 was released with the following new features and updates:

• Updated SQLite engine to version 3.3.17
• Improved cookie performance
• Support for site-specific preferences – text size
• A new Quit dialog box that resolves termination errors
• Added permanent ‘Restart Firefox’ button to Add-Ons Manager
• Miscellaneous fixes to download manager including correctly displaying large file sizes
• Various Places fixes
• Miscellaneous Gecko 1.9 bug fixes

Also there are few known issues for all operating systems:

• Clear Private Data does clear stored passwords from the Password Manager list. The workaround is to clear the password list from within Password Manager.
• The Cairo graphics system has drastically changed the way all text and images are rendered from previous versions of Gecko, so occasional misrenderings of non-latin scripts and fonts may occur.
• The Phishing Protection notification bubble is hidden by the content area

Issues for Windows only:

• Upscaling images can result in misrendering, causing the edges of the image to appear blurry.

Issues for Mac OS X:

• The user’s choice of a default font may not always be honored.
• Font decorations such as underline and strikethrough may be drawn incorrectly.
• Complex script (ex: Indic) may be misrendered.

Issues for Unix Systems:

• Loading any page with Chinese, Japanese or Korean text can hang the browser.
• Performance on complex script (ex: Indic) may be slower than previous versions of Gecko.
• Compatibility issues have been reported when users are not running Xorg 7.0 or better.
• Users may experience problems when attempting to print complex pages.

More details can be found here.

Firefox 3 Will Support Web Page Content Editing

Firefox team keeps adding features to their new web browser, as you know it’s called Firefox 3 (codename Gran Paradiso).

This time they announced “web pages content editing” support for Firefox 3, while Internet Explorer and Safari already got this feature, it’s not so advanced like Firefox one (still i ndevelopment). So now you can edit sections which are marked with contentEditable = “true”.

Today Is That Day – Firefox 3 Alpha 6

We should will have Firefox 3 Alpha 6 release today and I am pretty excited about that. Alpha 6 will be the last release in “Alpha” series.

After Firefox 3 Alpha 6 release we should wait till the the next month (July) end in order to enjoy Firefox 3 Beta 1.

Waiting for the news…

Get Ready And Update Your Firefox Browser

As Mozilla told us, Firefox 1.5.0.12 will be the last release ever in the Firefox 1.5 series, in order to help Firefox 1.5 users update their browsers into Firefox 2.0 more easily, they have developed an easy update system to do that.

We are rollling major update starting this afternoon (Thu, June 28, afternoon PDT).

Use Firefox Extension To Protect Your Privacy

Want to protect your privacy? Stanford SafeCache extension for Firefox might be one of the ways to do that. This plugin can protect you against various cache-based tracking techniques.

It allows embedded content to be cached, but segments the cache according to the domain of the originating page.

After installation you will be able to Enable or Disable it.

It’s not much, but if you really want to do that, feel free and try this extension.