Firefox 3.5 Released

After nearly a year in development (and six months later than planned) Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 today!  Many new exciting features for users and web developers:

Mozilla Project Weekly Status: July 6, 2009

Note: Effective today the Mozilla Project Weekly Status Meetings will be held 2-hours earlier at 11:00 AM PDT.

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)

• AMO 5.0.7 freeze was 7/2
• 5.0.7 pushed to next Wednesday (7/15) (help us test!)
• Upcoming projects welcoming discussion
  • Collections Phase II
  • Removing the sandbox
  • developer.AMO designs
• 365 pending updates and 268 nominated add-ons (graph)
• 90% of hosted add-ons compatible with 3.5.*

FIREFOX

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • handed off to build a couple hours ago
  • still targeting mid-late July for release

• Firefox 3.0.13
  • proposed schedule to become final this week
  • will have a final list of blockers this week as well

• Firefox 3.5
  • we shipped a browser last week – perhaps you noticed?
  • 15M downloads and counting
  • Windows CE builds are becoming a higher priority

• Firefox 3.5.1
  • starting to build out a schedule this week
  • stay tuned, come to tomorrow’s development meeting

• Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)
  • Explorations and sprints to determine what will become the cornerstones of 3.next/Namoroka

GECKO

• Gecko 1.9.1
  • No Report

THUNDERBIRD

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 / Gecko 1.8.1.23
  • No Report

• TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder)
  • 3.0b3 schedule updated

Complete Meeting Notes

Firefox Release Recap: July Week 1

Just Released

• Firefox 3.5 – June 30, 2009

Schedule this Coming Week

• None

Future Release

• Firefox 3.0.12 - July 21st
• Firefox 3.0.13 - Sept 1st
• Firefox 3.5.1 – TBA

Importing Saved Passwords into Firefox 3.5

For assistance with importing passwords to/from other versions of Firefox see: Tip: Importing Saved Passwords

During the development of Firefox 3.1/3.5 the way Firefox handles passwords was changed. Passwords are now stored in a file called signsons.sqlite. Should you choose to do a fresh install of Firefox 3.5 instead of upgrading directly from 3.0.11 or moving away from the old Firefox 2, follow these steps below to get your passwords into Firefox 3.5:

Managing Cookies with Firefox 3.5

The Cookies controls are a bit hidden in Firefox 3.5. You will need to go Tools >> Options.. >> Privacy.  From there under history select from Firefox will: Use custom settings for history.

Firefox 3.5 Renaissance Wallpapers/Persona

“Within the web today, a browsing transformation is underway.  We’re seeing constant advancement from the static browsing Middle Ages of old and the ushering in of a new Modern Era of openness, speed and security.“

–Sean Martell

Mozilla’s Sean Martell has created a Da Vinci-esque A Web Browser Renaissance wallpaper. You can get either a 4:3 ratio widescreen version (2560px × 1600px) or fullscreen version (1600px × 1200px). The same design is also available as a Persona skin.

Disable Tab Tearing

With Firefox 3.5 Released yesterday, many unsuspecting users are going to unwillingly discover the new tab tearing ‘feature’ in Firefox 3.5. This ‘feature’ allows you to tear a tab from the current window to have it opened in its own window. The problem with this is simply clicking on the tab and dragging it downward tears it from the current browser window and places it in another new window.

Firefox Release Recap: June Week 4

Just Released

• Firefox 3.5RC3 – June 24, 2009

Schedule this Coming Week

• FIREFOX 3.5 – JUNE 30th

Future Release

• Firefox 3.0.12 - July 21st

Firefox 3.5 RC3 Released

We mentioned earlier today about Firefox 3.5 RC3 Coming, it is now available for download. Whilst this may be as close to a final product, it is still a developmental version, therefore the usual disclaimer still applies:

Please note: Firefox 3.5 RC3 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this release.

Source: Mozilla Developers News

Firefox 3.5 RC3 Coming

A very minor third and final RC is coming for Firefox 3.5 very soon. This RC includes retouches to the Firefox icon, localization corrections and a few performance tweaks. Due to the minor scope of this RC this should not have any effect on the final Firefox 3.5 release next week.

Source: MozillaLinks