Mozilla have announced the next available Firefox build for developers.
This release contains mainly security and stability fixes, details of which can be found in the FF3.5.3 bug list
Anyone riding the BETA channel can do a manual update to download ff3.5.3 otherwise you can download from here – http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.5.3-candidates/build1/
Unless you use Opera, Safari (windows version), Chrome and several others… not to mention IE6 used by more ‘Office’ workers than anyone.
The Microsoft Office team working on the new web version have announced in a very ironic blog post that the new service will only be supported via the following browsers
They haven’t ruled out support for other browsers in the future and just say to “Give it a try … and let us know if you see issues”.
They do make a good point tho andstatistics wise they have chosen the most popular browsers used (although I would swap Safari for Opera in my list) and focused on them for launch support and the fact they have left off IE6 could be a blessing for all of us.
Microsoft Office is used by almost all businesses around the world at some point or another, most of which are also still using IE6 as their main browser for one reason or another (that’s a different argument for another day). By not supporting IE6 and pushing businesses to use the web version of office instead, they are in a great position to quietly force businesses to upgrade and join the rest of us in standards compliant (almost in IE’s case) browser world. whether or not the big cheeses will go for rolling out a browser upgrade or just stick to using existing versions of office will be interesting to see but I for one hope they do…
You can read more on this story by reading the microsoft office blog post by clicking the link above.
Mozilla have announced the first developer milestone of Firefox 3.6 is now available to download for developer testing. Code named Namoroka, it is built on a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform and introduces several new features, most noticeably speed improvements to TraceMonkey and more support for CSS3.
You can download Namoroka using the following links
Mozilla have, as always, released a developer guide to the new features, for a full list of additions to Firefox 3.6 follow this link
I read an interesting article on hacks.mozilla.org the other day that I thought a few people may be interested in.
Its about a new DOM function, part of the Web Storage specification, that allows you to store data on a users local system.
Its written by Jeff Balogh, part of the Mozilla web development team
Link : http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/localstorage/
hacks.mozilla.org is a site full of guides and demo’s of the new features that can be found in Firefox 3.5
After 6 months delay, Mozilla have finally released the long awaited major update to its open source web browser Firefox.
2 x faster than Firefox 3, 10 x faster than firefox 2, numerous new feature’s and upgrades, Firefox 3.5 has a lot to live up to.
Developers should head on over to the developer notes if you’ve not read them already, there is also a blog that Mozilla have setup that explains the new features in more details, its called hacks.mozilla.org i would advise everyone has a quick look over it as there is a lot of useful stuff on there.
Want to know more?
Mozilla’s 3.5 announcement post can be found here
You can download Firefox 3.5 here
Or watch the tour below…
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A lot of people dont know about these so thought I would also add a link to the Firefox Tips and Tricks