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Firefox 3.6.8 released

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:47:38 +0000

Security Advisories Fixed in Firefox 3.6.8:

MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

From http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html

User Agent string for Firefox 4.0 beta 1

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:09:41 +0000

This is what Firefox 4.0 beta 1 describes itself as:

“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:2.0b1) Gecko/20100630 Firefox/4.0b1″

Firefox 4.0 beta 1

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:14:46 +0000

Firefox 4 Beta 1 includes an updated Windows interface that’s sleeker and easier to use. (Mac & Linux are coming soon!)

Under the Hood

WebSockets

Developers will be able to build real-time online interactions like gaming and chatting.

Stylin’ Pages with CSS3

With support for new CSS3 features, web designers can make their pages both look prettier and display faster.

HTML5 Support

A new HTML5 parser and full support for web video, audio, drag & drop, and file handling means Firefox 4 is ready to run the best web apps of both today and tomorrow.

Web Console

With this experimental analysis tool for modern sites, Firefox allows you to peek under the hood of dynamic web pages.

JetPack SDK (Making Add-On Development Easier)

Add-Ons can be installed without restarting the browser, and can be developed more easily using the new JetPack SDK and js-ctypes.

Indexed DB

Developers will be able to store application data locally, making cloud applications like Gmail or GDocs work more quickly and reliably, even when not connected to a network.

Crash Protection

Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows, Linux, and now Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these commonly-used plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Instead, you can simply reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.

Firefox 3.6.6

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:23:08 +0000

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

Cloud Agents updated with Firefox 3.5.10

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:25 +0000

To enable our users to test with Firefox 3.5.10, our testing agents (servers) have now been updated.

For more details see the updates section at http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/updates/

Firefox 3.5.10

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:03:21 +0000

Firefox 3.5.10 has been released – it patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Firefox gets crash protection with 3.6.4

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:02:00 +0000

Firefox 3.6.4 has been released with crash protection for Adobe’s Flash Player, Apple ‘s QuickTime and Microsoft ‘s Silverlight plug-ins, and is available only in Firefox for Windows and Linux . Mozilla is still working on the “out of process plug-ins,” or OOPP feature, for the Mac version. The version also patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Firefox 3.6.2

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:06:36 +0000

Mozilla yesterday released a beta version of the Firefox 3.6 browser to fix several stability and security issues.

Firefox 3.6.2 has been released to Mozilla’s beta tester community, and includes several bug fixes such as crashes when using Adobe’s ClickMap add-on. Other problems reported by some users, such as there being no prompt to update extensions for the browser when Firefox was upgraded, have been fixed in the new version.

The beta isn’t aimed at all surfers, though changes will eventually be implemented in the full, stable version of Firefox 3.6.

You can download the Firefox 3.6.2 beta from the Mozilla website.

Firefox 3.6 was launched in January, with Firefox being the second-most popular browser after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, though Microsoft’s dominance of the browser market is already being eroded after it was forced to offer everyone using it’s operating system the chance to switch to another browser – Opera has already reported a rise in the number of people using its browser as a consequence.

Firefox 2.0 drops off the radar

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:19:58 +0000

We keep an active check on the browsers that our visitors use, mainly for interest, but today is the first day that there have been no visitors at all using Firefox 2.0.

We guess that in general if you’ve chosen Firefox, you keep up to date (assuming all your favorite add-ins work in the new version).

We still support Firefox 2.0 as part of our cross browser testing service, but are also seeing a drop off of people using it for testing their websites.

Version 3.6 has already risen to 21%, 3.5 is still 42% (probably people waiting for the add-ins to be updated) and 3.0 comes in at 4% – the next one to bite the dust we suspect.

Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18

Phil Smith - Cloud Testing — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:57:45 +0000

Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers’ Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced scripting functionality that lets
site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread to reduce the performance hit on Firefox’s user interface. The fixes are already in the 3.6 release.

Cloud Testing has updated it’s agents with the latest versions.