Version 3.5 of Firefox browser handles video like a web page. The new product, expected in late June includes video player for the open formats Ogg Vorbis and Theora.
Given the support and HTML5, users will be able to edit videos in real time and add them in arbitrary units. In addition, the image can zoom in and examine the Web page itself or separate therefrom, said TechCrunch.com.
All these features outweigh Flash Video brought and would significantly advantage of Firefox, if the format Ogg become sufficiently popular in the Internet. Moreover open video formats are supported by the new browser and also pre-loaded fonts and other graphical elements.
FireFox 3.5 works significantly faster than previous versions of the browser. It has always been the speed characteristics of the web application to Mozilla. It is now available for download beta 4 of Firefox 3.5, which is the last before the final version.
Mozilla has released a new version of stability and security improvements for the current 3.0.x release. Nine security vulnerabilities have been fixed and disclosed in this release, including four critical ones according to Mozilla Security Advisories.
Among stability improvements several bugs related to the SQLite powered Firefox storage system have been patched to prevent some conditions that may result in a corrupted Library.
To update just select Check for Updates… in the Help menu.
Mozilla started a project to make Firefox split in several processes at a time: one running the main user interface and another or several others running the content in each tab. Like Chrome or Internet Explorer 8 which have implemented this behavior to some extent, the main advantage would be the increase of stability: a single tab crash would not take down the whole session, as well as performance improvements in multiprocessor systems that are progressively becoming the norm.
The project is coordinated by Mozillian Benjamin Smedberg and integrated by Joe Drew, Jason Duell, Ben Turner and Boris Zbarsky in the core team.
# Fixed a security issue: MFSA 2009-23 Crash in nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun()
# Fixed a major stability issue.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.
Mozilla Firefox 3 became the most popular browser in Europe with a market share of 35.09% according to latest data from StatCounter.
Second in popularity is Internet Explorer 7 with 34.51% which is less than a percent behind Firefox. Other browsers like Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firefox 2 take 11.92% and 3.1% respectively.
On a world scale Internet Explorer 7 keeps its first place with 38.6% market share followed by Mozilla Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 6 with 25.7% and 21.81% respectively.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.
