On today’s Firefox 3 status meeting, the need for a second release candidate was confirmed and it has been tentatively targeted for early June. RC2 will fix about a couple dozen bugs including some top crashers, some affecting performance and localization related. Most of the bugs already have patches waiting for review or landing and

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As planned, milestone number eight in Firefox 3 development has been reached around mid-September. Not surprisingly, it is not a beta but another alpha which is really a good thing since there are a lot of new features and improvements that need very extensive testing. Download Manager The download manager has received a lot of

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So if you haven’t updated yet, there goes another reason to do so now. According to a report released by Ken Kovash from the Mozilla Metrics team, Firefox 3.6 has not only seen a 40% stability improvement since its initial release (from about 6.5 crashes for every 100 users, to around 2.5), but it has

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Hunspell, an open source spell checker engine has been added to Thunderbird 3 development code replacing previous MySpell engine that currently ships with Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox 2.x. Hunspell also replaced MySpell as OpenOffice.org’s spell checker last year as it provides some unique and welcomed advantages including support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis

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One of the most active areas during Firefox 2 development was tab browsing. From tabs behavior to overflow handling there has been much improvement, but for some long time Firefox users some of them may be annoying, so here’s a set of tips for customizing tab browsing in Firefox. By default, when you close a

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XiTi Monitor has released the latest numbers on browsers utilization in Europe and the rest of the world, announcing it has reached about 29% in March 2008. Finland, Poland and Slovenia keep leading the pack with 45.9%, 44% and 43.7% respectively. Considering other browsers including Safari and Opera probably have a strong presence in Europe

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A useful feature that is already available in Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 that I haven’t noticed before is the ability to make multiple discontinuous selections. As of Firefox 2, selections are limited to continuous areas only. With this new option you can make an initial selection as usual and then keep adding text chunks by

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Hunspell, an open source spell checker engine has been added to Thunderbird 3 development code replacing previous MySpell engine that currently ships with Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox 2.x. Hunspell also replaced MySpell as OpenOffice.org’s spell checker last year as it provides some unique and welcomed advantages including support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis

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With every Firefox release comes change, and Firefox 3.5 is no exception. While the changes are always well intentioned and aimed to make our web life easier, it’s not always like that for everyone, hence, there’s always something new to tweak. Accessing about:config through the location bar, checking some setting, updating a file, or installing

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The latest Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) development release (nightly) includes the very important and expected ability to pause downloads and resume them across sessions, that is even after restarting Firefox. The addition happened just before the code freeze that started this morning in preparation for the upcoming milestone 8 (M8) expected for mid

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his is a Firefox 2007 calendar in 3 page format. It is provided as JPG files as I created it with the idea of printing them at a digital photo lab (about $ 0.60 for three 4'' x 6'', I guess). Page 1, features the now famous Firefox crop circle, a project from the Linux

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Latest Firefox nightlies feature an important new face for users: a new home tab. Enter about:home in Firefox location bar and right now you get a search box and not much more. The new design aims to improve discover ability of several features to users including a launcher to manage bookmarks and history, tweak Firefox

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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, the second development release of the first major update to Firefox 3, released about six months ago. Firefox 3.1 will bring several new features (most of them pulled back from Firefox 3), along with significant performance, usability, and web standards support improvements. Let’s see what’s in. Tabbed Browsing

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Originally planned for Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 but finally backed out in both development cycles, tab preview is available again in Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 nightlies to provide visual tab switching: you press Ctrl + Tab to get previews of the current along with the five most recently used tabs, plus an option to show

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Back from a totally offline, sweet 7-day cruise with great times at Aruba, Cura~A§ao, Sint Maarten, and Saint Thomas. Aruba and Cura~A§ao: overrated. Sint Maarten: the winner hands down. If you can, jump on one now! Seems like not much happened last week besides the release of Geode, a Firefox 3 extension developed by Mozilla

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As announced some time ago, the latest Firefox 3.1 nightlies (Shiretoko) now feature a Private Browsing mode, where all user activity traces including history, cache, download history, saved passwords, searches, cookies, and others, are removed as soon as the user returns to normal browsing mode. To enter Private Browsing, select Private Browsing in the Tools

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One of the most active areas during Firefox 2 development was tab browsing. From tabs behavior to overflow handling there has been much improvement, but for some long time Firefox users some of them may be annoying, so heres a set of tips for customizing tab browsing in Firefox. By default, when you close a

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On schedule, according to the latest estimate, Mozilla has released the first Firefox 3 release candidate. For Mozilla it means what says in the label: unless there is some major bug reported for this release, the “release candidate” part will just be dropped from the name and become Firefox 3 final. Otherwise, additional candidates will

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