Category: Firefox
Firefox 9 To Feature Speed Dial
Welcome to the 4 years ago.
According to the latest article on wiki.mozilla.org, Firefox 9 will be borrowing various Opera Speed Dial elements (introduced in Opera 9.2 on April, 2007) for its own good.
The following post covers some of the upcoming Firefox 9 new tab page features and mentions:
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Malware Protection: IE9 Smashes Other Web Browsers
Google responds.
Once again, NSS Labs, an independent security research organization, has tested top 5 five web browsers to find out, how good they are at blocking the socially engineered malware.
Has anything changed? In terms of ranking, not rally. However, Google Chrome saw a 340% or 10.2 percentage points improvement when compared to the previous report, which is definably a good news for all its users.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, August 22nd
- Run Internet Explorer 10 using Internet Explorer 9′s UI
- How a Bing-Firefox Deal Could Change the Search Landscape
- Firefox 7 Beta Puts Priority on Performance
- Firefox 3.6.20 security update now available
- Google’s Chrome ‘Related’ Add-On: Handy, But…
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks
- Dev Channel Updates for Chromebooks
- Opera at Gamescom 2011
- Opera’s weekly build: Certificate Unbroken
Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Version Number
Mozilla’s decision to strip the version number from Firefox’s “About” dialog box has been greeted by a nearly unanimous thumbs down, according to a lengthy, and at times heated, debate on a company discussion list.
The pushback was the second in as many months against Mozilla, which found itself the center of a late June controversy over its apparent lack of interest in enterprise customers. Asa Dotzler, a director of Firefox, explained why Mozilla was dumping the version number in a thread in the mozilla.dev.usability discussion group.
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Chase.com Goes Down For Firefox Users
Firefox users had trouble accessing JPMorgan Chase’s website chase.com today when the bank experienced problems with an outdated security certificate. Going by a Chase spokesman, the Firefox certificate was updated on the bank’s servers in about 45 minutes, fixing the issue.
The outage involved a lapsed security certificate. Website servers present certificates to a customer’s browsers to verify identities. This certificate, which has information such as the address of the site, is verified by a third party that is trusted by a user’s computer. A certificate that is outdated or lapsed would appear as having been revoked by the issuing server.
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Microsoft Sends Mozilla A Cupcake
Orders more wholesale.
Continuing its sweet tradition, the software giant has sent a gift to Mozilla Corporation, congratulating them on the Firefox 6 release. What is that, you ask? A delicious cupcake.
Unfortunately for Mozilla, Microsoft has decided not to send a full sized cake, which would’ve been sent prior the rapid release cycle introduction. Still, a nice gesture nonetheless.
Via Neowin
Weekly Browsers Recap, August 15th
- Internet Explorer IQ Hoaxer Says He’ll Do It Again
- An infographic! If web browsers were wrestlers…
- Mozilla Brings The Sign In Button To The Browser Level
- Mozilla Wants a Browser to Control Your Phone
- How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox
- Building better web apps with a new Chrome Beta
- Dev Channel Updates for Chromebooks
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta and Stable Channel Update
- Opera goes to China with Oupeng browser launch
- Maxthon Mobile Selected as the Default Browser for GalnetMIUI
[Thanks, asknobody]
Web Browser Backup: FavBackup 2.1.1 Released
With the release of Firefox 6, we are happy to announced the availability of FavBackup 2.1.1, which fixes a bug when backing up AdBlock data (as reported by DeoDomuique) and adds a few new web browsers support.
Changelog
– Added Google Chrome 15 Dev Support
– Added Firefox 6 Support
– Fixed Firefox AdBlock Backup Issues
Download Firefox 6 Final
Jumping ahead of schedule, Mozilla has uploaded the Final version of Firefox 6 web browser into their servers for you to download.
Although the official changelog is not yet available, Firefox 6 will include the following new features and enhancements:
Reduced startup times when using Panorama
Web Console usability improvements
Improved discoverability of Firefox Sync
Domain name highlighting in the address bar
A support for the latest draft version of WebSockets
EventSource / server-sent events and window.matchMedia support
… and more
