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Posts tagged Mozilla
Getting Closer: Firefox 3.6 RC Released
Jan 11th
Yesterday, Mozilla released the Release Candidate for Firefox 3.6. This release of 3.6 fixes more than 70 (Bugzilla reports 98) bugs since Firefox Beta 3.6 (revision 5).
Updated Strata 4.0 for Mac
Jan 5th
Just uploaded a small update to Strata 4.0 for Mac that adds support for the Tab Progress Bar and Fission extensions and fixes a small bug. Enjoy.
Mobile Firefox Release Canidate 1
Jan 2nd
Over the new years weekend, Mozilla released RC1 of the mobile version of their popular browser Firefox. Firefox for Maemo is part of Mozilla’s ongoing attempt to bring the Mozilla Gecko platform to mobile devices that has been in the works for years. This brings more browser choices to the mobile platforms of today and tomorrow. The current official builds only are only for Nokia N900 or N810, more devices will surely be supported in the future.
Opera Seems to Like the Firefox 4.0 Look
Dec 22nd
Over at the design-noir Blog, it seems someone noticed that the new Opera 10.5 pre-alpha appears a little familiar. With Firefox 4.0 a ways away, but still in the minds of people such as the author of Strata40 and StrataBuddy, it seems that the new look is already a hit. Now Opera wants to try on this new look. Check out the new Opera look then compare it to the current Firefox 4.0 look.
Next Edition of JavaScript MAY Break the Scripts of Today.
Dec 21st
Jeff Walden, one of the Peer members of the Mozilla JavaScript module (SpiderMonkey) has brought to light some changes coming to their JavaScript interpreter in Firefox 3.7. These change will bring SpiderMonkey in line with the next edition of the JavaScript standard, ECMA-262. These count not only break existing code, but also introduce a new opt-in mode of execution for JavaScript called strict mode.
Jeff mentions that not only does the new standard add to it many features that where merely extensions to JavaScript present the current browsers, but they don’t behave the same way unless strict mode is turned on. He also elaborates how turning on strict mode can complicate things for existing code as well. As the saying, “if you do, and if you don’t.”
Jeff describes changes in detail and examples of where they are relevant, but also states that this may be only a small minority of JavaScript code currently in use on the Web. The truth is, we will only know when browsers start rolling out versions with these new changes. You can read more details about it on Jeff’s blog posting.
Web Server and Browser Security: Microsoft vs Open-Source
Apr 17th
I know that this subject has been dragged out over and over but every one that does seems to be bias of one side or the other. Personally I prefer using open source servers and browsers; Firefox, Apache, and PHP; over Microsofts offering. My reasons for this are varied. I use Firefox because it is more secure than Internet Explorer and more customizable, and I use Apache/PHP because I am more familiar with it and I can also get make use of it’s advanced features on home and workstation versions of Windows. I also prefer FreeBSD over Linux because of being familiar. But how secure is all of this software. The results might or might not suprise most people.