Later today, Firefox will undergo its biggest developmental upheaval ever. Mozilla-central, the source of nightly builds, will be renumbered to version 5 — and at long last, after years of wallowing around version 1, Mozilla’s rendering and layout …
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New Firefox Nightly and Aurora logos unearthed, and how to enable channel switching
Posted by Sebastian Anthony on April 11th, 2011
Google Chrome now uses SPDY HTTP replacement, halves page load time
Posted by Sebastian Anthony on April 11th, 2011
We’re not entirely sure of the time line here, but it looks like Google has now rolled out the SPDY HTTP replacement to its full bevy of Web services, including Gmail, Docs, and YouTube. If you’re currently using Google’s Chrome browser you’re pro…
SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 3 is out, brings many new features
Posted by Vlad Bobleanta on April 8th, 2011
The SeaMonkey Project has released SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 3, a version that makes a lot of new functionality available to a wide audience for the first time. A lot of stuff has been added and tweaked since SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 2 hit the streets back in Fe…
Adblock Plus developer pokes holes in Mozilla’s new add-on performance tests
Posted by Sebastian Anthony on April 8th, 2011
Wladimir Palant, developer of the most popular add-on in the world, Adblock Plus, is also an active contributor to the Planet Mozilla blog community. Over the last few days, in response to Mozilla’s new name and shame list of slow add-ons, Palant ha…
Opera 11.10 includes improved power saving features
Posted by Lee Mathews on April 7th, 2011
Just recently, the Opera 11.10 release candidate was made available for download. It brought a handful of important feature additions — like HTML5 File API support and IMAP enhancements — and loads of bugfixes. Nestled in amongst the other details…
Opera 11.10 gets HTML5 File API support, IMAP improvements
Posted by Lee Mathews on April 7th, 2011
The crew in Oslo keeps plugging away at Opera 11.10, and the latest snapshot build includes a number of improvements to Opera’s built-in email client — as well as HTML5-related additions.
On the IMAP front, Opera now supports special folders like …
Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4
Posted by Sebastian Anthony on April 5th, 2011
When Firefox 4′s tab grouping tool, Panorama, had its keyboard shortcut changed to the finger-breaking combo of Ctrl+Shift+E, we thought Panorama would get dropped before FF4′s final release — but, thankfully, it made the cut!
If you’ve used Firef…
RockMelt Beta 2 redefines bookmarking, gets new Twitter app, is based on Chromium 10
Posted by Vlad Bobleanta on April 2nd, 2011
RockMelt, the Chromium-based social Web browser has reached a new milestone today. Following its first public beta that was released in early March, RockMelt Beta 2 has started being pushed to the browser’s users. The new version brings many new fe…
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Comments OffFirefox 4 Friday: 25 million downloads, anti-aliasing, and how to make it look like Firefox 3
Posted by Sebastian Anthony on March 26th, 2011
If you’ve had your head under a rock for the last few days, here’s this week’s Firefox news in brief: Firefox 4 was finally released.
Yes, 13 months after the initial release of Firefox 3.7 alpha 1 and four more alpha builds, a renumbering to 4.0 a…
Firefox 4 officially launched, 400,000 downloads and climbing fast
Posted by Sebastian Anthony on March 22nd, 2011
Mozilla has just flipped the switch on the new, rather beautiful Firefox 4 download page. No, we have no idea who those three cute (and utterly crazy) characters are.
Update: You can keep track of Firefox 4 downloads around the globe with Glow, a b…
