Tag: Firefox
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.
Weekly Questions Recap, September 14th
Unresolved
- How to uninstall Interent Explorer on Windows 7?
- How to open all links in new window automatically in Firefox?
- How to update Google Chrome?
- Which Browser Will Dominate In Market Share Within The Next 6 Months?
- How to remove border links around images in web browsre?
Answered
None
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
Weekly Browsers Recap, September 6th
FavBrowser.com
• Internet Explorer 9 vs. Google Chrome 7 vs. Firefox 4 (Hardware Acceleration)
As Google Chrome 7 (dev) now includes hardware acceleration, guys from DownloadSquad decided to…
• 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…
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Web Browser Questions and Answers
After a couple of requests, I have finally decided to launch a page that is ask.favbrowser.com
What is it all about?
Essentially, it is a web browser questions and answers site. Therefore, as the content starts kicking in, ask.favbrowser.com will serve as a good knowledge base for web browser related issues.
Also, you can earn points for asking and answering questions.
Can you redeem points for any cool prizes?
Not yet, but stay tunned, there will certainly be a couple of them in the near future.
Visit web browser questions and answers page.
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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Internet Explorer 9 vs. Google Chrome 7 vs. Firefox 4 (Hardware Acceleration)
As Google Chrome 7 (dev) now includes hardware acceleration, guys from DownloadSquad decided to test it along with Internet Explorer 9 (developers preview) and Firefox 4 (beta).
What are the results?
Google Chrome 7 utilized the most of the hardware resources, delivering better FPS (frames per second) than Internet Explorer 9 or Firefox 4, which took the last place.
However, as those are not the final builds, don’t draw your conclusions yet, things might change in the future.
Thanks to geek for the news tip.
