For the last two days I have been receiving popup messages when running Firefox. They stated that “Update Failed. Something is trying to trick Firefox into accepting an insecure update. Please contact your network provider and seek help”. Since I have not changed a thing in that time that would affect Firefox’s update mechanism I [...]

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If you follow this tech blog closely you know already that the latest release of Firefox, which would be Firefox 7.0, contained a bug that hid away some or even all add-ons of a user who updated a version of the browser to the latest stable iteration. Mozilla after noticing the problem stopped the distribution [...]

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If you have updated your version of Firefox to version 7 you may have experienced a bug that some users experience. According to Mozilla, some users who have updated to the latest version of Firefox have noticed that all their add-ons have disappeared from the web browser. Mozilla notes on a newly created support page [...]

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We have talked about Mozilla’s move to improve Firefox memory usage starting with Firefox 7. Up until yesterday those improvements were only available in Firefox Nightly builds. Mozilla rolled out Firefox 7 to the Aurora channel today, and boy has memory usage gone down. The memory usage of the browser was usually in the 300 [...]

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The Firefox rapid release process that Mozilla switched to has caused some confusion about continuing support for older versions of the browser. While there was never an official support timeline before and after the process change, it was assumed by many that major versions of Firefox were supported for at least six months after release. [...]

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Mozilla is currently distributing an update of the Firefox 4 browser to worldwide mirror servers to be prepared for the update rush once the updating notification appear in the web browser and on the official project homepage. For now, no sign of the update is visible on the homepage or in form of notifications in [...]

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We have mentioned earlier that the Firefox development team had plans to switch to an accelerated development process. According to those plans, the development process would be divided into four stages that would on average take a new build in 18 weeks from its first appearance to release. Builds would be moved to new channels [...]

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With all eyes on the Firefox 4 launch yesterday, updates for Firefox 3 have slipped by almost unnoticed. Mozilla yesterday made available updates for both active branches of the Firefox 3 web browser. Firefox users who are running Firefox 3.6.15 or Firefox 3.5.18 have the option to upgrade their browser to the latest Firefox 3 [...]

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Mozilla will release the final version of the long awaited web browser Firefox 4 tomorrow. This ends an odyssey full of delays that began about nine months ago with the first beta release of Firefox 4. Nine months, that is the projected time that Mozilla will need for the next three major Firefox releases. I [...]

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