We’re just over 12 hours until the start of the long-awaited Download Day! Our Guinness World Record attempt will start when Firefox 3 is officially launched at approximately 10:00 a.m. PDT (17:00 UTC) on Tuesday, June 17th.
At that time, please check out the official Download Day site to get Firefox 3 and for a map of worldwide downloads!
1 comment June 17th, 2008
After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, Mozilla is proud to announce that they’re ready. It is their expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser.
Add comment June 12th, 2008
The third Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. It contains a single change for Mac OS X users only; there is no change for users running previous Firefox Release Candidate versions on Windows or Linux. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed in the minutes of the Firefox 3 Planning Meetings, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
Testers can download the third Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.
1 comment June 12th, 2008
The second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
Testers can download the second Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.
For more info and links: blog.mozilla.com
Add comment June 5th, 2008
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
Add comment May 29th, 2008
The official presentation of the new, third version of Mozilla Firefox is scheduled for June 2008. “We decided to release the final version in June” said Mike Schropfer, vice president of Mozilla Corporation.
According to him, many users expect the release of the third version but there are hundreds of Firefox add-ons and projects and we must check them and prepare for official release. Schopfer points that Firefox RC1 is already out and it has been downloaded 1.5 million times.
The company do not eliminate the possibility of another Release Candidate before official Firefox 3.
“Browsers become more and more important applications because web pages become more and more sophisticated and bigger so the productivity and stability of browser are a great moment.”
1 comment May 22nd, 2008
The first Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
New features and changes in this milestone:
* Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
* Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
* Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatibility and stability.
* Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.
Testers can download the Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.
Add comment May 19th, 2008
Google has updated the iPhone version of Google Reader, its online web feed aggregator.
This is good news even if you don’t have an iPhone. Like other web apps designed for the iPhone interface, it fits very well in Firefox (and other browsers) sidebar.
And it’s pretty simple:
1. Open the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks…)
2. In Firefox 2, in the File menu, select New bookmark… In Firefox 3, press Organize in the toolbar and select New bookmark…
3. Enter a name, http://www.google.com/reader/i/ for location, and ensure to check Load this bookmark in the sidebar.
4. Press Save Changes and now you can select the bookmark to load Google Reader in the sidebar.
Similar tricks allow you to add other iPhone apps and Facebook Chat.
Add comment May 16th, 2008
Users who spend a fair share of their web time around social web sites and chat will be glad to meet the new Yoono 5, currently in private beta status.
Yoono 5 beta is a powerful Firefox extension, that integrates with several social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Piczo, Flickr and FriendFeed. Once you provide your credentials, you are able to see contacts in each network, their latest activities, posted photos and access to their respective messaging systems, post to Twitter or upload photos to Flickr.
Add comment May 14th, 2008
Iron Man movie proved to be a very entertaining story, perhaps the best told for a comic character based movie so far, fast paced, appropriate special effects.
If you enjoyed the movie, here’s an Iron Man theme for you. You will need Personas, Mozilla Labs’ Firefox extension that allows to set a background for the toolbars and the status bar.
Once installed, click on the Personas icon in the status bar, and select Preferences, press the Custom Persona Editor…
1. For header, enter http://www.mozillalinks.org/download/personas/ironman_header.png
2. For footer, http://www.mozillalinks.org/download/personas/ironman_footer.png
3. Change the font color to something suitable, like gold.
4. To allow more of the background to be seen, add this line to your userChrome.css file:
#nav-bar { padding-right: 150px !important; }
That’s all.
5 comments May 4th, 2008