Category: Firefox
Firefox 4 to Release on Tuesday
Firefox 4 was originally slated for November of 2010, but after a dozen betas, the 22nd of March may be the final release date. That is the new release date stated by Mozilla anyway.
The current release candidate was labeled as good enough to ship as the final product on Wednesday by Mozilla developers. This contrasts with what Mozilla has done in the past, namely ship multiple release candidates until finally determining the shipping code. Firefox 3.6, for example, had two release candidates issued by Mozilla before reaching its audience more than a year ago.
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Weekly Questions Recap, March 15th
Don’t forget that you can receive points for asking/answering questions and redeem them for cool prizes.
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How Would You Change Firefox?
The time has come yet again…
How would you change the Firefox web browser to make it better?
Firefox 4 Release Candidate Now Available
The first release candidate of Firefox 4 has been set free upon the masses by the Mozilla Foundation and is available for download from here.
According to Johnathan Nightingale, director of Firefox development, this release candidate embodies what the development team deems to be a finished browser.
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URL Hunter
Your video card can’t handle video games on a big display? No worries! Here is a game where the URL bar is an actual screen.
Wait, what!
You are almighty letter O and have to kill as many a’s as possible. Use left and right arrow keys to control your character and space bar to kill.
Play.
Users Advised to Update Graphics Drivers for Firefox 4
According to Mozilla, users will need to make sure that their graphics cards’ drivers are up to date if they wish to utilize hardware acceleration present in Firefox 4.
Benoit Jacob of Mozilla’s platform engineering team explained…
Convert Flash to HTML5
Adobe has released an experimental technology codenamed Wallaby which is designed to convert Flash (FLA) to HTML files.
Although not all features are yet supported, it’s a welcomed step forward.
Wallaby is free to use, so if you want to give it a try, here is a download link.
Weekly Questions Recap, March 7th
Don’t forget that you can receive points for asking/answering questions and redeem them for cool prizes.
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Weekly Browsers Recap + Bonus Links, March 7th
FavBrowser.com
- February, 2011 – Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Firefox, Opera – Down
- Web Browsers Usage By Country
- How Would You Change Internet Explorer?
- IE6 Countdown
- Download Firefox 3.6.14 And 3.5.17
- Onclick Javascript Does Not Work in Google Chrome and Firefox?
- 19 Chrome Bugs Fixed in Preparation for Pwn2Own Hacking Contest
- Safari Adopts WebKit2
- Download Opera with Hardware Acceleration
- Opera 11.10 to Include Password Synchronization
