Firefox 4.0 to be silently updated

Firefox is hoping to add an auto/silent update feature to Firefox 4.0, which will be enabled by default, but can be turned off. The major update dialog box will only be used for changes like version 4 to 4.5 or 5 according to Alex Faaborg on the “mozilla.dev.apps.firefox” forum. Users will still see the updating [...]

User Agent string for Firefox 4.0 beta 1

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

Firefox 4 Beta 1 includes an updated Windows interface that’s sleeker and easier to use. (Mac & Linux are coming soon!) New Tab Location Switch to Tab Firefox Button 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 [...]

Firefox/4.0 Windows Theme Mockups

Only a few days after releasing mock-up’s for Firefox 3.7, Mozilla has released some mock-ups for Firefox 4.0 – https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups. It quite reasonably states that they are “NOT FINAL! THEY ARE ONLY FOR BRAINSTORMING/EXPLORATION”. The example tab layout below gives some idea of the thought process, and you might think the ‘Tabs on Top’ option [...]