Monthly Archives: November 2011

New Web Development Tools Coming
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Firefox 10 Aurora (release date January 31st, 2012) has added some new integrated web development tools. Some of these look similar to the current Firebug extension. For more details see Firefox to get more powerful web development tools on mozilla … Continue reading

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Electrolysis project on hold
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On November 15, 2011, Mozilla announced, the Electrolysis project (e10s) will be placed on hold for the foreseeable future. What exactly is e10s? It is a lot of things that improve the performance, security and even stability of Firefox. The … Continue reading

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Update: Changes to Firefox for Android UI
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As mentioned last month, Mozilla is dropping XUL (eXtensible User interface Language, an XML grammar used by Mozilla to define user interfaces for Firefox and Thunderbird) in favor of using Android’s own Native user interface. This move was to increase … Continue reading

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Firefox Release Recap: November 19, 2011
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Just Released Firefox 9 Beta 2 – November 18th Coming Soon Firefox 8.0.1 – Week of November 21st December 20th Firefox 3.6.25 Firefox 9 Final Release Firefox 9 for Android Final Release Firefox 10 Beta (10.0b1)* Firefox 11 Aurora (10.0a2)* … Continue reading

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Firefox 9.0 Beta 2 Released
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Firefox 9.0 Beta 2 has been pushed to the Beta Channel. Beta 1 users can update via Help  > About Firefox…  

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Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012
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Some new developments since the Firefox 3.6 Support Ending Early 2012 article was posted last month. The Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal has been more refined now. If the assumption that the first Firefox ESR is going to be based of off Firefox 10 … Continue reading

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Revision to Starting with a Fresh Profile
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Bad_Attitude commented about the Starting with a Fresh Profile post. They mentioned that they move their Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts as well. I am not really certain what percentage of Firefox users use Greasemonkey and/or Stylish scripts and didn’t even … Continue reading

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omni.jar to become omni.ja
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Bug 701875 was created a few days ago to address a major issue with Windows and Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4.0+/Thunderbird 5.0+). omni.jar is a core file for Gecko 2.0 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. From MDN: Firefox 4 and Thunderbird … Continue reading

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Faster Firefox Updates
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First off, by faster we do not mean frequency, but rather how fast the update installs on your machine. Ehsan Akhgari has posted an article on Future of Firefox, Updating Firefox in the Background. In this article, Ehsan explains how … Continue reading

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Wiki Updates
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Over the past couple days, we have gone through and updated the Wiki. The Extensions section has been updated for Firefox 7.0 and 8.0 compatibility and about a dozen new extensions that have already been discussed on the blog were … Continue reading

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