Today Firefox celebrates its 6th Birthday. It was launched on 9th November 2004 as an open source and lightweight web browser. It is the best and more secure alternative of IE6, which was the superior browser at the time.
Since its launch, Firefox is the second most popular browser with a 31.5% market share and available in more than 70 languages with large numbers of Add-ons. More than 150 million people trusted on Firefox and use Firefox Add-ons to modify their web experience.
Mozilla release an update for FireFox 3.6.6 within a week after the release of Firefox 3.6.4 version.
Mozilla listened from some users who are using old computers, that after installing Firefox 3.6.4 they sometimes receive non-responsiveness from plugins before they are terminated, especially when they playing flash games.
According to Mozilla Blog they have fixed the crash protection feature in the web browser and increase the amount of timeout to 45 seconds from 10 seconds that plugins are allowed.
Firefox fans, it’s here: The first beta of Firefox Lorentz beta has been released.
Lorentz is Firefox version 3.6.3 with a much delight in update. Firefox beta allows you to separate plugins, such as Adobe Flash, so that they don’t crash the entire browser when they encounter issues and the plugin is replaced with a dark image notifying the plugin crash. This feature is called “out-of-process plugins.”
The wait for Mobile users is finally over. The first mobile version of the firefox free browser “Fennec” will be presented very soon.
Presently, it will be available for the Nokia N900, but then also be used in other models. Fennec will synchronize with Firefox. That means any Web page to open the PC’s browser automatically opens in the version for mobiles. “At the end of the day you can go home and stay connected to your terminal,” said Sullivan.
Sullivan further added that the browser is presently in its final stages of testing and could be available for download prior to the end of 2009.
Google has finally released “Chrome Extensions” library with nearly 500 functional extensions for their Chrome browser. The list of these extensions are small as compare to what is offered by Firefox, but most users will want to try these extensions. Google is trying to play catch up with what Mozilla Firefox users have been using for years.
Google’s Chrome is still on the fourth-place in terms of usage with 30 million active users. Google Chrome browser is quick and their latest versions seems even quicker. An advantage for Chrome extensions over Firefox add-ons is that you do not have to restart Chrome after installing the extensions. To manage the installed extensions, just type chrome://extensions in the browser Address Bar and hit enter.
Mozilla released the beta 4 version of Firefox 3.6. The update contains over 100 fixes from the last Firefox 3.6 beta, containing many improvement for web developers, add-on developers, and other users. Almost 70% of the Firefox add-ons have now been compatible with Firefox 3.6 beta. You can also download and install the Add-On Compatibility Reporter and report to add-on author will appreciate it!
On November 9, 2004 the Mozilla project, lunched a new experimental web browser “Firefox 1.0”. Within the first four days of launch, more than 1 million people had downloaded a brand new browsing experience. Its aim was to reduce Mozilla’s bloat (if you remember those early days, the Mozilla Suite consisted of a web browser, mail client, news reader, IRC client; it even had a web page creator called Mozilla Composer), and it was an instant hit among users and developers alike.
After the Firefox’s latest beta, Google has also just released a new beta build of their Chrome web browser. Although still in development, this technology allows Chrome users to sync their browser bookmarks across multiple computers without having to manually recreate them on each machine used.
