The developers of Firefox have released a new preview of Firefox 3.7, a browser that will never be released under that version. Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 Pre has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site. The major addition to this Firefox release is the new add-on manager the developer’s have been talking about earlier. It [...]

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Mozilla’s Director of firefox, Mike Beltzner, has updated his personal blog with information about the upcoming Firefox 4 release. The product plan for Firefox 4 outlines the primary goals for Firefox 4 and aims to clear some of the confusion that surrounds the current versioning of the web browser. The blog post is actually a [...]

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Firefox 3.6.4 is a security and stability update to earlier versions of Firefox 3.6.x. The actual public release of Firefox 3.6.4 is targeted for May 13 but the developers have decided to provide an update to Firefox users who have been running beta versions and developer builds of Firefox 3.6.4. This update is already provided [...]

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Customizations have always been a core aspect of the Firefox web browser. Up until now it was possible to drag and drop some user interface elements, like bookmarks or search bars into other toolbars. It was furthermore possible to use CSS styling to change other elements (like font sizes for instance) as well. But then [...]

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One would think that web browsers run independently of each other, that Google Chrome and Firefox or Firefox and Internet Explorer would not affect each other. Michael Horowitz just found out that Internet Explorer can affect Firefox on Windows XP. He lately changed the security level of Internet Explorer to high for some extra security [...]

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Firefox 3.6.4 has been in the talks lately because of the intention of the Mozilla developers to add out-of-process plugins to that version of the web browser which basically means that popular plugins run in their own process instead of the main browser process. This is beneficial in case of a plugin crash as it [...]

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Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome are doing it, so why should not the Firefox web browser? Running plugins in separate processes adds much to a web browser’s stability as a crash in a plugin could, and usually would, result in a browser crash as well if everything was handled under one process. With out-of-process [...]

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The Mozilla developers have just released Firefox 3.6.3, an update to the latest version of the Firefox web browser. This update fixes a critical security vulnerability in Firefox 3.6.2 making it a recommended update for all uses who have that version of the web browser installed. The critical security vulnerability could allow remote code execution [...]

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Mozilla has just released updates to the Firefox 3.0.x and Firefox 3.5.x branches that they still support up to this point even though Firefox 3.6.2 has been released a while ago. It is a little bit like Microsoft still supporting Internet Explorer 6 or 7 even though Internet Explorer 8 has been released. Firefox 3.0.19 [...]

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