Firefox 3.6.8 released
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
Firefox 3.6.6
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.
Firefox gets crash protection with 3.6.4
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 [...]
Firefox 3.6.2
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 [...]
Firefox 2.0 drops off the radar
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 [...]
Using Selenium IDE with Firefox 3.6
The current version of Selenium IDE (1.0.2) is ‘incompatible’ with Firefox 3.6 betas, as shown below. There is a workaround or trick that you can use to get round this. Warning! It involves editing the configuration and settings of your Firefox browser, so be careful – you have been warned. Step 1 In the address [...]
Firefox 3.6 Beta 4
Beta 4 of the 3.6 version of Firefox has been released. It includes 140 fixes compared to Beta 3. For information on what the 3.6 beta 4 update, are available at the release page. Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many [...]
Firefox 3.6 beta 3
Beta 3 of the 3.6 version of Firefox has been released. It includes 80 fixes compared to Beta 2. For information on what the 3.6 beta 3 update, are available at the release page. To test your website either functionally or for cross browser compatibility, why not use Cloud Testing.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download
The following posting on the Mozilla developer news (https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/10/30/firefox-3-6-beta-1-is-now-available-for-download/) announces 3.6 beta 1 of Firefox: The Mozilla community is proud to release Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and [...]
Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) features disclosed
In a couple of articles on it’s Wiki (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Namoroka) and it’s developer site (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.6_for_developers), Mozilla has released details of the name and features in the next version of Firefox. It will have the codename of Namoroka, named after the Namoroka National Park, located in the northwestern part of Madagascar (see the Wikipedia entry for more [...]
