Firefox 10 Releases Today, Fixes Add-On Compatibility Issues

Firefox 10 is due to release today, continuing Mozilla's commitment to the six-week release cycle it switched to last year. As usual with these rapid-release browsers, Firefox 10 brings a couple of features you'll probably notice and a few more that you probably won't. The browser is available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7, Intel versions of Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7, and most flavors of Linux.

Firefox 10's banner feature is a tweak designed to fix add-on compatibility - most add-ons compatible with Firefox version 4 and later will now automatically be marked as compatible by the browser without any additional updates from the add-on's developer. This is true both of add-ons downloaded from Mozilla's repository, or add-ons installed from elsewhere on the Internet. This was done to ease the pain of upgrading for heavy add-on users, and to make way for Mozilla's silent Firefox updater, which is tentatively scheduled to land in June with the release of Firefox 13.

Mozilla has also hidden the browser's forward button unless it can actually be used, implemented anti-aliasing for WebGL, added support for CSS3 3D transforms, added full-screen APIs to allow for full-screen web apps (though still no official support for Lion's Full Screen mode), and a few other small feature and bug changes.

FF10 is also the first release of the browser to be offered as an "Extended Support Release" or ESR, which will be offered as a separate download - as we reported earlier this month, the ESRs will be good for a year, and will keep the same major version number and rendering engine while being kept current with security and bug fixes. The ESR is intended to replace Firefox 3.6, which has been patched continuously as Firefoxes 4 through 9 have been end-of-lifed, and is meant to placate enterprise administrators and others upset by the new rapid release cycle. Firefox 3.6 is tentatively scheduled to be discontinued on April 24, so if you've stuck by it for the last year you should begin testing the new version soon.

Source: Mozilla

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Mozilla Announces Firefox Extended Support Release

Mozilla announced today that it would be offering a so-called Extended Support Release (or ESR) for Firefox to ease the pain of enterprises, universities, and other users put off by the company's earlier decision to switch to a rapid release cycle for Firefox. The ESR will be updated to a new major version about once a year, and then maintained with security patches until the next ESR, much as Firefox 3.6 has been maintained since Firefox 4's release. The first ESR should be Firefox 10, which is due on January 31 - six weeks after the stable release of Firefox 9.

The plan as currently proposed is to support each ESR for nine Firefox release cycles, which at the current rate of a new release every six weeks ends up being about 54 weeks. For each major release of Firefox, the ESR build will receive a batch of security updates and bugfixes (so, FIrefox 11 would bring Firefox 10.01, Firefox 14 would bring Firefox 10.04, and etc.) without making changes to the rendering engine or major features - extensions that break in major version updates should also continue working in the ESR when it is updated. As each new ESR is introduced, the previous ESR will receive 6-12 more weeks of official support before being discontinued.

The ESR proposal was created by Mozilla's Enterprise User Working Group, and will hopefully be the first step toward remedying Firefox's historically poor enterprise support - Internet Explorer and Chrome both offer MSI installers and Group Policy controls for use by Active Directory administrators who need to keep their users' browsers locked down and up-to-date. 

Source: Mozilla

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Firefox 7.0 Released

Has it already been six weeks since Firefox 6.0 was released? Apparently so, since Firefox 7.0 has just been made available for Windows, OS X, and Linux users to download.

Firefox 7.0 is the first stable release to benefit from Mozilla's "MemShrink" initiative, which aims to improve the browser's speed and resource usage by reducing memory requirements and addressing memory leaks that can bog down the browser over long sessions, or for users with many tabs open simultaneously.

Other new additions include a new version of "Canvas," a Direct2D acceleration feature for HTML5 games and animations; support for the W3C navigation timing API, which can help developers measure page load time under a variety of different circumstances; and Telemetry, which can send anonymous information about your browsing sessions to Mozilla to aid in the identification of performance issues. Upon installing Firefox 7.0, you'll be given the opportunity to opt-in or opt-out of Telemetry.

The full Firefox 7.0 release notes can be found here, for those interested in technical details. The update should be available to current FIrefox users now, and you can always get the latest version manually at getfirefox.com.

Source: Mozilla

 

 

 

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Mozilla Firefox 4 Review

Download 5 Plug-ins in Firefox Browser

Firefox browser is one of the most growth in users. For users of Firefox already know that made in Mozilla browser has a lot of plug-in.

Plug-ins are additional tools that can be installed on the Mozilla Firefox browser to add a particular capability or facilities, increase the comfort use internet or enhance the browser view.

There are thousands of plug-in available in Firefox which can be downloaded and installed free of charge. The following are the five plug-in Firefox which is very useful and quite popular among internet users Techdream version. What is your favorite plug-in?

1. Autocopy

By using this plug-in, Firefox will automatically copy text that has been blocked. We do not need to press the keys Ctrl + C, so more sparingly time. Plug-in Autocopy This can be downloaded at:
https:// addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383


2. Fire Uploader

With this plug-in, you can upload or download video, image files or documents from any site, including Flickr, Google Picasa Albums, Youtube, Facebook, Box.net. Yhis Interface also very user friendly. Download the plug-in:
http://www.fireuploader.com/ # fupHome


3. GMail Manager

Plug-in is very useful to the GMail account. With this plug-in, you can set a different account from GMail Firefox and monitor whether there is new e-mail or not. Some of the interesting features of this plug-in is:

* Automatically log in and open the inbox with just one click.
* Displaying number of unread email in the inbox.
* List of 10 most recent messages.
* Raise alerts when a new incoming email.
* Customize the icon on the toolbar / statusbar.


Plug-in Manager GMail you can download at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1320


4. Foxmarks

Plug-in allows you to access the bookmarks on any computer as a plug-in will save a copy of the bookmarks on the server. Hence, you can access your bookmarks from any computer. Plug-in will be very useful for you who often use the computer that is different. To download, visit the following link:
http://www.foxmarks.com/


5. IE Tab

There are several websites that can only be run on the browser Internet Explorer (IE). so you would not want to have to use IE. Firefox offers a plug-in called IE Tab. With this plug-in you can open a new tab which is the IE tab in Firefox browser, without having to open the IE window. Download IE Tab through this link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419


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