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Mozilla: No Firefox Browser for the iPhone
If you’ve been expecting to see Firefox for the iPhone anytime soon, then hold your horses still.
In the recent post, Mozilla has answered to one of the most frequently asked questions: Firefox for the iPhone?
We are working to bring as much of your Firefox experience as possible to Firefox Home. People have asked about adding more browser-like features to Firefox Home, but there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone. We are focused on building Firefox Home as a rich, cloud-based application and making it a valuable product that people will continue to love and use.
From the answer above, it looks like Mozilla is unable to implement the full Firefox browser experience into the iPhone. However, as company continues to explorer various options and alternatives, we might see something what resembles a mobile web browser.
Firefox 4 Beta 6 Out Now
With the release of Beta 6, Mozilla continues Firefox 4 polishing. The latest version fixes a total of 5 bugs that lead to a bit more stable web browser.
Currently, Beta 7 is targeted for the 2nd Half of September release, with the RC coming sometime in October. However, those dates are not final and may change at any time.
Firefox 4 Receives Paste and Go
It looks like Firefox developers are following Opera and Chrome web browsers, as latest builds now include a much needed, “Paste and Go” functionality in both, address bar and search engine forms.
Just like in Opera or Google Chrome, menu will appear after you right click on one of the forms. If everything works as expected, you may also assign a shortcut, such as CTRL+B or any other.
Via MozillaLinks
Firefox 4 to Include Optimized Session Restore
Recently, Firefox 4 nightly builds has received a yet another feature that is “cascaded sessions restore”.
From now on, when you restart Firefox, all your opened tabs won’t be opened at once. Instead, three most important pages (number can be changed, see .sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs) will load firstly.
For example: if you switch to a different tab, Firefox will start loading it immediately, even if it didn’t before. Result? More usable web browser during launch.
As authors say, idea is based on Firefox BarTab extension.
Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13 Released
Today, Mozilla has released a minor update that fixes a single stability issue in both, Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 branches.
Furthermore, Firefox 3.6.10 blocklists Personas Plus 1.6 due to incompatibility with many add-ons.
Firefox 4 Beta 6 Renamed to Beta 7
According to Mozilla’s Developer Center, company will issue a minor update to Beta 5 sometime this week, which will fix stability bug on Windows systems as well as OSX rendering and keyboard/mouse focus issues.
As a result of this update, upcoming Beta 6 release will be renamed to Beta 7 and it set for the second half of September release.
No Firefox 4 64 Bit for You
Even though 64 bit operating systems are becoming a standard in today’s computing world, Mozilla’s Director of Firefox (Mike Beltzner) revealed that company has no plans to release 64 bit Firefox 4 final build in the near future.
Early in the summer we decided to not yet provide supported 64-bit builds on Windows, and will instead work on delivering those in some future release.
If only we had a 64-bit Flash Player build for all the platforms…
Firefox 4 Beta 5 Released
As Firefox 4 Final nears its release, Mozilla released the fifth beta of its Firefox 4 web browser.
One of the key features in this version is a support for Direct2D hardware acceleration on Windows 7 machines that is now enabled by default.
Furthermore, Beta 5 introduces audio API which uses HTML5 (see video below), implementation of the HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) as well as hundreds of bug fixes and other improvements.
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Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12 Released
Lots of releases today; one of them is security and stability update for Firefox 3.6.x and 3.5.x web browsers.
Firefox 3.6.9 fixes a total of 67 bugs, including 14 security vulnerabilities that are also patched in 3.5.x branch.
In addition, latest stable release now includes a support for The X-Frame-Options response header.
Download Link: Firefox 3.6.9
August, 2010 – Firefox, Chrome, Safari Share Up; Opera, Internet Explorer – Down
With few major browser releases just around the corner, let’s find out how market share has changed over the past month.
After surprising 2 months market share increase in a row, this time Internet Explorer lost 0.34 of it, down from 60.74% to 60.40%.
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