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How to Enable TraceMonkey on Firefox 3.1

Posted in mozilla on October 22, 2008 | No Comments »

Hey I have noticed some major misconceptions about the speed of the nightly builds of Firefox 3.1 Some reviewers have attempted to compare Firefox 3.1 with other browsers like Chrome and have come up with unexpected results. This is mostly due to the individuals NOT enabling TraceMonkey (the new JavaScript engine) in Firefox 3.1. You [...]

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New Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Milestone

Posted in mozilla, open source, software on August 10, 2008 | No Comments »

Okay, this is just cool. I can’t wait until Fennec is finished!

Fennec (Mobile Firefox) has reached milestone 6 (M6) last week and can be installed to a Nokia N8×0 for testing. Remember, we haven’t reach alpha yet, but we are getting close. M6 adds “tabs” to the browser UI, adds tel: and mailto: support and [...]

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Firefox 3.0.1 Ready for Wednesday

Posted in mozilla, open source on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »

According to the meeting notes for this week, the first security update for Firefox 3 will be out on the 16th. There’s about 30 bugs that will be fixed in the 3.0.1 release and this will most likely clean up any security issues that were made aware to Mozilla after the initial release of FF3. [...]

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Mix-n-match Firefox 3 Themes

Posted in mozilla, open source, software on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »

You can now have any Firefox 3 native theme on any OS (except Linux). Here are your options:
Vista Theme on XP
XP Theme on Vista
Mac OSX Theme (experimental)
Linux Gnome Theme (experimental)
The Mac & Linux themes are experimental and the other two themes are still in development, but I have tested them out and they rock. It’s [...]

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Firefox 3.0 Released to the Masses

Posted in mozilla, open source, software on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »

You can now officially download Mozilla Firefox v3.0. Enjoy!
http://getfirefox.com/

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Note to Mozilla…

Posted in mozilla, open source, software on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »

If you are going to ask everyone interested in your browser to download it on the same day for a world record, you’d better fix your servers and fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DOWNLOAD FIREFOX 3 SOON…

Posted in mozilla, open source on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »

Starting tomorrow, June 17th, you can download the final version of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - the best web browser on planet earth! Please support the download day effort!
http://mozilla.org/
http://getfirefox.com/
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

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Firefox 3.1 By End of Year

Posted in mozilla, open source on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »

MozillaLinks has a great post on the features planned for Firefox 3.1 later this year. Firefox 3.1 will be a minor update to the Firefox 3.0 browser and will include features that were originally slated for 3.0 but didn’t make it. Firefox 3.1 will also include everything you expect from an update.

Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) planned [...]

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Firefox 3 - June 17th

Posted in mozilla, open source on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »

That’s right folks, you heard it here probably not first. But at any rate, the FINAL version of Firefox 3.0 will be released to the public on Tuesday June 17th.
Announcement

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