Posts tagged Firefox
Download Day
Jun 12th
Mozilla Firefox 3 will be released on June 17th, 2008.
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Firefox 3 Beta 5
Apr 2nd
Firefox 3 Beta 3
Mar 21st
Has anyone installed Firefox 3 yet? I hate to say it, but I’m not liking it at all. I don’t care for the new icons nor do I care for the new almighty location bar. I haven’t installed it on my XP machine, but it looks horrible and runs really slow compared to Safari 3.1 on my iBook. I installed it at work and I’m still not impressed. Safari 3.1 was released a few days ago and it lost it’s beta tag. I have to say, it’s quick on both platforms. Give me some feedback people.
Firefox 3 Beta 1
Nov 20th
Firefox 3 Beta* 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues. Gecko 1.9 includes some major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers. You can check out what’s new here.
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*A beta version is the first version released outside the organization or community that develops the software, for the purpose of evaluation or real-world black/grey-box testing. The process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release. Beta level software generally includes all features, but may also include known issues and bugs of a less serious variety. [SOURCE: Wikipedia]
Safari 3 Public Beta
Jun 11th
The world’s fastest web browser for Macs is now available for Windows PC’s. Safari 3, introduced at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari joins iTunes in delivering Apple’s legendary user experience to both Windows and Mac users as well as full support of open Internet standards. Safari 3 features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.
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Firefox 2.0
Oct 25th
What’s new in Firefox 2.0
Visual Refresh: Firefox 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled.
Enhanced search capabilities: Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integrated search box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com search engines. A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-order search engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters a website that offers new search engines that the user may wish to install.
