Category: Firefox
More Great Stuff In Firefox 3
Firefox team keeps adding great features and last nightly build is not an exception.
What you can do now is see installed plug-ins in very friendly way, also enable or disable them, for example: Flash and/or DivX players.
Here how it looks:
Picture source.
Using Firefox 2 you can type about:plugins (in the address bar) and get similar information but in not so friendly way. Actually, you will see more than a few lines of text. Seems Firefox teem playing trying to make Firefox 3 as friendly as possible.
Great Firefox Add-On – Coupon Notifier
If you love online shopping this will be a real gem.
Coupon Notifier 1.6 was just released and I am really happy to tell you about it. With this add-on you can easilly find coupons and deals while surfing online shops (over 4000 merchants supported). This can help you to save a few bucks with no effort at alll.
Firefox 3 Alpha 8 Pre
Yesterday Firefox team released yet another nightly version of Firefox 3 web browser.
Besides various bugs fixes, you can find some great improvements as well. Now you can resize your Firefox search and location bars which allow users to customize their Firefox 3 Alpha 8 Pre bars in any way they want. However, that’s not the only one great improvement. Firefox team made one more makeover. It’s a Vista menus look.
Thanks to Omega X for the screenshot.
If those improvements gives users what they want, then I would like to praise Firefox team for adding this in their latest Firefox 3 Alpha 8 Pre, August 8 release.
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No More Than 10 Days To Release Critical Patch
“Ten Fuc*ing Days”. That’s what Mozilla said.
That’s right, they’ve said that they can release any critical patch within 10 days or faster. Firefox 2.0.0.6 was released even faster than 10 days (after security flaws were discovered). So they are not just using some tricks (or do they?), it’s already proven, we will see how fast they will release next one.
In my point of view, before using such statements they should also fix other security vulnerabilities. Even if they are not the most critical ones.
Unpatched 43% (6 of 14 Secunia advisories)
Most Critical Unpatched
Secunia Security Stats.
Details About IronMonkey And ScreamingMonkey
Hello everyone,
Sorry for not writing anything interested in a past few days, I was in some kind of not planned vacation. Anyways, time for the news.
Mozilla team updated us by providing more details about IronMonkey and ScreamingMonkey. Here are some quotes from their post.
The critical, core, component of this is the Tamarin virtual machine (which is an Open Sourced version of the ActionScript Virtual Machine that powered the Adobe Flash Player). Tamarin already supports ECMAScript 3 (and, thusly, JavaScript, ActionScript, and JScript) and parts of the upcoming ECMAScript 4 specification.
JavaScript will no longer be the only viable scripting language in browsers that use that Tamarin engine. At the very least, there’ll be two more languages to work with.
ScreamingMonkey is the effort, being led by Mark Hammond, to allow the Tamarin engine to run within non-Mozilla browsers, starting with Internet Explorer.
ScreamingMonkey Planning Notes.
That’s a brief, here’s a full story to read (if you want to).
Firefox 3 Alpha 7 Released
Yet again, we have a new Firefox 3 version: Firefox 3 Alpha 7.
What’s new in it? There are some great stuff like zoom and that’s not all. Here’s a complete list of changes and fixes:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) has been removed. Gecko 1.9 will no longer build or run on Mac OS X 10.3
- Default visited pages history size 9 to 180 days
- Full page zoom of images, layout and text
- Many fixes for context menus, clipboard, and drag services on Mac OS X
- Reworking of XUL menus and popups
- document.all now returns a NodeList of elements
- Several new clipboard events
- A class of wrappers to mediate access between web pages from different origins
- Cross site XMLHttpRequest specification implemented
- A method for opening modal dialogs from content
- Color profile support
- Text in canvas
Here’s what I got after trying to run Firefox 3 Alpha 7:
Oh well… I will wait for Firefox 3 Milestone 8 then, it will be released in the middle of September.
Release Notes
Download Firefox 3 Alpha 7:
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
Firefox 2.0.0.6 Released
Finally, some new version of web browser, as I was geting bored.
Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes the following security issues:
- Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
- Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
Every web browser update is important and I strongly advice you to update your Firefox to the newest one. If you can increase your security level for free, why not to do that?
What’s New In The Next Firefox 3 Release?
So there will be few more new things in the next Firefox 3 release. First of all, it’s a page zoom (like Opera’s one).
New “google-safe-browsing” protocol and better scripting support.
That’s all what I read so far, let’s wait for more news.
Increase Your Security And Privacy With Firefox Add-Ons
Is there anything wrong this week? Waiting for some new releases and just interesting news, but nothing happens. Anyways…
Sean P. Aune wrote a nice article and listed over 50 add-ons for Firefox, which should help you to increase your security and privacy level.
50+ Firefox Add-ons For Security and Privacy.
Enjoy.
Mozilla To Develop A New JavaScript Engine (ActionMonkey)
It seems that Mozilla Devs ain’t sleeping. They are going to develop a brand new JavaScript engine called “ActionMonkey“.
ActionMonkey is the code-name for the project to integrate Tamarin and SpiderMonkey as part of Mozilla 2.
Stage 0 of this project is underway. What they are going to do now is to replace SpiderMonkey’s GC (jsgc) with Tamarin’s GC (MMgc).
Their new efforts will boost performance for sure and I am waiting for more news from ActionMonkey blog.
