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 Posted: Sun, 28th Jun 2009 06:37 Post subject: Firefox 3.5 coming June 30 |
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| Quote: | Mozilla will release the next major version of Firefox on Tuesday, June 30, Webmonkey has learned. Mozilla confirmed the news Friday afternoon.
The company previously made a promise that it would make the browser available for download “by the end of June” this year. Since next Tuesday falls on the last day of the month, Mozilla is sticking to its word — just barely.
Firefox 3.5 is the first major revision of the popular open-source browser since version 3 landed a little over a year ago, in June of 2008. It features a faster rendering engine, stability enhancements and a new JavaScript engine that boosts the performance of most web-based applications. Firefox 3.5 will also include support for the most widely-used elements of HTML 5, the set of next-generation web standards that allows for offline data access, enhanced web graphics and multimedia playback without plug-ins.
Firefox 3.5 is currently in the post-beta release candidate stage. You can grab a preview release from Mozilla’s website if you can’t wait to download the final code on Tuesday.
Firefox is the browser of choice of between 20 and 25 percent of web surfers. It is second only to Microsoft Internet Explorer, which commands about 65 or 70 percent of the browser market. Browser share data is much disputed, based on who is doing the compiling.
If you’d like more information about Firefox 3.5 and what’s new, check out our links to previous coverage listed below, or head over to Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard’s blog. Blizzard is almost through with his 35 days project in which he highlights Firefox 3.5’s new features and even has some examples of how developers are taking advantage of the new tools to push the limits of the web. |
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_3DOT5_Will_Arrive_Tuesday__June_30
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jun 2009 22:45 Post subject: |
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so its out. final i mean
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| Posted: Wed, 1st Jul 2009 15:05 Post subject: |
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Other than new plus sign by the tabs, I see no major difference between the old one and new one :/
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Wed, 1st Jul 2009 15:09 Post subject: |
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private browsing:p
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/
| Quote: | # Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try it here!)
# Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
# Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
# The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. (Try it here!)
# Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
# Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
# Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms. |
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| Posted: Fri, 3rd Jul 2009 10:05 Post subject: |
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I have just noticed that on new 3.5 quotes are centered...
On old 3.sth the quotes were all to the left... Is this due to FF or did admins did sth?
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Fri, 3rd Jul 2009 10:29 Post subject: |
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For me it's the same on FF 3.0.11 (and IE 7) as well.
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| Posted: Fri, 3rd Jul 2009 10:49 Post subject: |
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weird... I could have swear that it was aligned all to the left... Well, maybe I'm just loosing my mind  
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Jul 2009 19:28 Post subject: |
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damn , why the fuck isnt there any love for Opera ??
i still think it's the best out there ..
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Jul 2009 19:36 Post subject: |
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I hold off on 3.5 for awhile and let you all work out the bugs. Sticking to 3.0x..whatever.
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| Posted: Thu, 16th Jul 2009 18:52 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Firefox to get added stability with multi-process browsing
Multi-process browsing is quite handy; it is already enabled in Google's Chrome browser and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, and it means that each page runs in a separate process which leads to added security and stability, because if one page goes bad, it doesn't affect the others. This new feature is now coming to Firefox users in the future, through a project Mozilla is calling Electrolysis, according to Ars Technica.
A prototype has already been assembled featuring said project, and a list of Mozilla's benefits can be found below, taken from this blog post:
* Increased stability: if a plugin or webpage tries to use all the processor, memory, or even crashes, a process can isolate that bad behavior from the rest of the browser.
* Performance: By splitting work up among multiple processes, the browser can make use of multiple processor cores available on modern desktop computers and the next generation of mobile processors. The user interface can also be more responsive because it doesn't need to block on long-running web page activities.
* Security: If the operating system can run a process with lower privileges, the browser can isolate web pages from the rest of the computer, making it harder for attackers to infect a computer.
Mozilla had explored the possibilities of this in the past, tossing ideas around the developer community, but apparently it didn't go anywhere until Microsoft and Google implemented it into their respective browsers. However, it won't be an easy task at all to get Firefox working this way. Here's the current plan on what to do to tackle it, taken again from the previously linked blog post:
* Sprint as fast as possible to get basic code working, running simple testcase plugins and content tabs in a separate process.
* Fix the brokenness introduced in step one: shared networking, document navigation and link targeting, context menus and other UI functions, focus, drag and drop, and probably many other aspects of the code will need modifications. Many of these tasks can be performed in parallel by multiple people.
* Profile for performance, and fix extension compatibility to the extent possible.
* Ship!
A screencast has been posted by Firefox developer Chris Jones, which you can download here in the .ogg format. It shows the functioning prototype of the browser, and demonstrates that when a page crashes, only the content disappears and the user interface remains just swell. He said, "Notice that only the 'content' disappears when the page crashes; the user interface itself keeps running as if nothing happened. This is a big step forward. With Firefox protected from buggy pages and plugins, more fun is possible. This video shows me pressing a 'Recover' button that relaunches the page that just crashed. There are many more possibilities for recovering from these errors, and I'm excited to see what our user interface folks cook up."
Please note that the team is currently working on Windows and Linux versions of this new feature initially, as apparently they are more comfortable in those environments, and a Mac version will come later once they work around difficulties. Be sure to keep an eye on this, Firefox users, because it will certainly improve your browsing experience. |
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More info here.
Finally! It's still long way off, but at least finally some word on this issue. The current single-threaded situation is very silly. For example, but a huge file to download in DownThemAll; the entire browser hangs while the extension allocates space on the HDD. :\ |
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Sep 2009 21:36 Post subject: |
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Toolbar is seriously screwed in the 3.5.2 version, I can't drag&drop links there anymore and people seem to have different problems with it.
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