Mozilla has released two new betas today. Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 is the first beta version of the upcoming version 5 of the Thunderbird desktop email client. Thunderbird users who are currently running a Miramar released should get update notifications soon. It is furthermore possible to manually check for updates to download and install the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 5 Beta Is Here, What’s New?
The first beta of the upcoming version 5 of Firefox has been released to the public. The release has been delayed by a few days which is a short time considering the delays during Firefox 4 development. The accelerated development cycle is now almost in full swing. The cycle is complete with the release of [...]
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Firefox 4 Beta 12 Has Been Released
Mozilla has just released the latest, and last (as already stated in Firefox 4, The State Of Development), beta of the upcoming Firefox 4 web browser. The beta is currently distributed to Mozilla’s worldwide distribution network which means that it may take some time before existing Firefox 4 beta users see the update notification in [...]
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Firefox 4, The State Of Development
When is Mozilla going to release the next beta of Firefox? When the release candidate and final build of the web browser? News are scarce at this point in time and I will try my best to give you an overview of things to come. The latest public beta version of Firefox 4 is beta [...]
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Latest Mozilla Meeting Reveals Firefox 4 Performance, Stability Issues
The latest meeting notes of Mozilla Firefox’s development team seem to suggest that the last two beta releases of Firefox 4 have caused an increase in performance and stability issue reports by users of said beta versions of the web browser. Mozilla notes that there has been a “huge increase in daily comments about memory [...]
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Firefox 4 Changes: Do Not Track, Link Urls Moved Down
Firefox 4 Beta 11 is now available for download at the official Mozilla website. The release is mainly a bug fixing release with the exception of one feature addition. The do not track feature that Mozilla announced earlier this year is now included in the browser. The Tell Web sites I Do Not Want To [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Only One More To Go: Firefox 4 Beta 11 Is Out
I’m monitoring the Firefox release ftp server actively for new releases. The long awaited Firefox 4 Beta 11 has just been uploaded to the release server. It means that the Mozilla Firefox development team has finished one of the two remaining beta releases of the Firefox 4 web browser. Experience has shown that it takes [...]
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Expect Two More Firefox 4 Betas Before The Release Candidate
It was not clear if Mozilla needed one or two beta releases after Firefox 4 Beta 10 was released last week. The Mozilla Firefox development team is still trying to resolve the remaining severe bugs (betaN hardblockers) that are preventing the release of the next Firefox browser. Christian Legnitto, the Firefox release manager, made it [...]
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Firefox 4 Beta 10 Is Out
Just yesterday we have been talking about plans to accelerate the Firefox development plan, and while the release of beta 10 of the upcoming Firefox 4 browser has nothing to do with that, it shows that the developers are urging to release the final version of Firefox 4 to start working on Firefox 5. Firefox [...]