The Mozilla Firefox developers are working on several different branches of the web browser at the same time. The latest public version, Firefox 3.6.6 just released today, and Firefox 3.7 which will be renamed to Firefox 4.0 later this year. The latest nightlies of Firefox 4.0 concentrate on finalizing the graphical user interface of the [...]

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Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6.6, less than a week after the release of the long awaited Firefox 3.6.4 version. Firefox 3.6.6 fixes a stability issue in the web browser. The developers have increased the time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before they are terminated by the browser. The timeout was set to [...]

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Firefox users with eagle eyes might have spotted a new process that pops up from time to time when they are running the web browser. The process plugin-container.exe appears and disappears sporadically depending on the websites visited. Regular Ghacks readers might already know the answer. Mozilla has added so called out-of-process plugins to the Firefox [...]

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Firefox 3.6.4 has just been released by the developers after a longer than usual wait time. The new version of the web browser comes with out-of-process plugins enabled. This feature basically runs plugins in their own process to increase the stability and security of the browser. By default, only Silverlight, Flash and Quicktime are making [...]

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It took quite some time but the wait is finally over, Firefox 3.6.4 has been released and is currently distributed to all mirror servers around the world before it is officially announced and distributed. The delay can be largely attributed to the out-of-process plugins feature that the developers have integrated into Firefox 3.6.4. The feature [...]

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I was pretty much waiting for the announcement that the final version of Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Imagine my surprise when I saw the notification that yet another beta build was released first. I have been a beta user ever since the first version of Firefox 3.6.4 came out. The latest build is a [...]

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The Mozilla developers are doing a lot to keep the community informed about design and interface changes that they might implement in the upcoming Firefox 4 web browser. But nothing beats trying out some of those changes in the latest pre-alpha builds personally.

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The Mozilla Firefox developers have released a new beta build of the upcoming Firefox 3.6.4 web browser which is already available through the internal update checker in Firefox. Firefox 3.6.4 Beta Build 6 is very close to the final version of Firefox 3.6.4 which is expected to be released on June 1, 2010. The release [...]

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A new build of Firefox 3.6.4 has been released and is currently distributed to users who have a previous build of the upcoming Firefox version installed on their computer system. The update check in the browser will recognize the new build and download it automatically to the computer so that the browser can be updated. [...]

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