Private Browsing in Firefox

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Today, a major feature was added to the pre-release versions of Firefox 3.1, called Private Browsing. I've been working for quite some time on this, so I thought it may be a good time to write about what this feature is and how to use it. As you may know, while ...

Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update ...

Firefox 3.0.1 More Secure and Stable

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

In Firefox's Help menu choose Check for Updates to download Firefox 3.0.1, a minor update that fixes Firefox 3's most common causes of crashes. This update won't cause any add-on incompatibilities. Source: http://lifehacker.com/398700/firefox-301-out-now-more-security-and-stability

Mozilla Patch Plugs a Safari Hole

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday. Both updates, labeled Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1, plug two holes rated "critical" by Mozilla, which uses ...

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is out

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

For those of you that haven't yet made the move to Firefox 3.0, the Mozilla folks have released Firefox 2.0.0.15 which according to the release notes link (see below) fixes a security vulnerability. However, the "known vulnerabilities" page (linked from the release notes page) doesn't include any info (yet) ...