Note: Some release and scheduling changes were announced in today’s Weekly Status Meeting
NOTE: The US and many other countries ended Daylight Savings Time early Sunday morning and returned to Standard Time. So now the Update meeting with be at 19:00 UTC (the “new” 11am PST) Monday.
There has been some revisions to the Speedup Firefox 3.5 Startup article. Inifox no longer seems to exist and the application was only in Spanish. This application would vacuum the Firefox databases. A big thanks to Gareon at Go Firefox! I have found there is now an add-on which will vacuum your place.sqlite database for you and from within Firefox. More information can be found on our Wiki: Speedup Firefox Startup.
While I did download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 release last night, I have finally got around to getting it installed. My system has been a bit problematic for the better part of the day. I also was having some issues with FEBE as well, but those seemed to be related to my profile which I had carried over from Firefox…well I have no idea what Firefox version I started this profile with. I’ve got all my add-ons, passwords, bookmarks and a couple other (except I don’t think my about:config settings carry) items backed up ready to import. So with the first run of Firefox 3.6b1 I was presented with this splash/welcome page:
Now a couple things I discovered as well on this first run. Persona is already built-in so all you need to do is follow the link and pick what you want your Firefox wants to wear. I say built-in as it is not an installed add-on. However I discovered a couple surprising things when I went to the add-ons manager, Google Gears was already installed (though not compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta 1). However, I was shocked to discover the Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant add-on was pending install (after restart). WTF! It is already installed as version 0.0.0! First off I thought Mozilla had block that add-on and further is a clean install of Firefox with a new profile. I canceled the pending install and disabled the one that is installed.
As mentioned last week on the Changes Coming to Our Main Site post, we’ve been upgrading our existing site. We are please to announce the first two sections of The Firefox Extension Guru’s Wiki are now live! So far the Tips & Tricks section of the main site has been migrated over to the Wiki. Also, most of the tweaks have been migrated over as well. Yes, most of the tweaks. This was because there were a few tweaks that really only applied to the early builds of Firefox 2. Most of the fixes provided by those tweaks were implemented by Mozilla in the final releases of Firefox 2 and have carried over into Firefox 3.0, 3.5 and the upcoming 3.6 releases.
The final migration is going to be the extensions section. Still evaluating the best way to migrate this section over. This is going to be a long and tedious process as that section needs a lot cleaning up before it can be moved on the Wiki. At this time the best estimate is going to be mid-November.
You can access the Wiki from the link below the logo in the upper right coroner of the blog or via the Wiki link from the main site.
After many delays Firefox 3.6b1 has been released today! This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. (more…)
Tuesday we saw the releases of Firefox 3.0.15 and Firefox 3.5.4. On Wednesday Firefox 3.6b1 was suppose to be released, at least that was what the new date was after last week’s delay. Wednesday has come and gone and no Firefox 3.6b1. The latest date on the release site shows Late October. Well that narrows it down to either today (29th) or tomorrow (30th). But, I am going to go out on a limb and say sometime in November…
Firefox 3.5.4 was released on October 27th. This release addresses Several security issues and fixed several stability issues. See complete Release Notes for full details.
Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going to Help menu and selecting Check For Updates. Also, a reminder from Mozilla Developer Network, If you’re still using Firefox 2.0.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Firefox 3.5 by downloading Firefox 3.5.4 from www.firefox.com.
Mozilla has released the 15th stability and security update for the Firefox 3 browser.
For more information about What’s New in Firefox 3.0.15, check out the Firefox 3.0.15 Release Notes. Current Firefox 3 users may obtain Firefox 3.0.15 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 3.0.15 directly via getfirefox.com
