Hace un par de semanas, Mozilla anunció Electrolysis, un nuevo proyecto que pretende hacer de Firefox una aplicación multiproceso, con un proceso separado para la interfaz de usuario (chrome), otro para cada pestaña y otro para los plugins, buscando ofrecer una mayor estabilidad cuando haya un problema con un plugin, o con cierta página web, para que no se caiga toda la sesión; mayor rendimiento, ya que los procesadores con nucleo múltiple pueden administrar varias tareas al mismo tiempo; y una mayor seguridad, ya que cada proceso se ejecutará en contextos de seguridad diferentes.

Chris Jones, un miembro del equipo de Electrolysis, junto con Benjamin Smedberg, Boris Zbarsky, Ben Turner, Joe Drew y Jason Duell entre otros, ha publicado un video demostración que nos ofrece un vistazo a la implementación básica con un proceso ejecutando la interfaz de Firefox y otro que se hace cargo de mostrar el contenido (gecko in-frame). Como puedes ver en el vídeo el proceso del contenido es finalizado manualmente, y luego restaurado, simulando un cuelgue por una página que se ha caído.

El equipo está en marcha y tiene planes de publicar una primerísima implementación que haga exactamente esto. Electrolysis usa el parseo de mensajería a través de IPC, y el código de configuración de Chromium (la aplicación de código abierto basada en Chrome), lo que lo hace tener una arquitectura multi-proceso como Internet Explorer 8.

Those of you using Firefox as your primary browser will want to upgrade to Firefox 3.5, which was officially released today. According to Mozilla, Firefox 3.5 is “more than twice as fast as Firefox 3.” Some of the improvements include a faster page renderer, smaller memory footprint, and an optimized JavaScript engine.

Are you a Firefox user? I use Safari at work on my Mac, but at home I use Firefox on my PC. Firefox 3.5 seems to be approaching the speeds of Safari 4, though. I’ll have to give it a whirl here at the office.

If you’ve never used another browser apart from Internet Explorer or Safari, then I suggest you do give Firefox a try. It’s much more reliable and as a I stated earlier, it is the self proclaimed saftest web browser. Which is quite a statment to make. It has all sorts of crazy customization options, you can totally change the overall look of the browser. Or you can download add-ons for pretty much anything you want. So, you like Twitter? Well, why not download the TwitterBar? You can then update your Twitter just by typing in your address bar. How about Facebook? Well there are all sorts of crazy apps for Facebook here.  If you already have Firefox and don’t know where you can get these updates I speak of, then you can get them from here. It’s also simple to use and FREE, everyone likes free stuff. Especially when it’s one of the best of its kind.

We all know that Firefox’s awesomebar is pretty damn awesome, but there’s another feature that makes it, dare I say -more awesomer.  If you type a  domain name without the protocol and top level domain Firefox will attempt to add the appropriate ones for you.  If it isn’t successful it’ll send you to the Wiki page of something it “thinks” you meant.  To go straight to a wiki page just include the keyword “wiki” with whatever you’re typing.  If there isn’t anything related on Wiki it’ll use your default search engine to display search results.  I know, it’s pretty awesome.

Be more awesomer, use the Firefox.

The new fiery Firefox logo

Mozilla ha publicado una nueva lista de mejoras en seguridad y estabilidad para la rama 3.0.x del navegador. Nueve agujeros de seguridad han sido solucionados y revelados en esta publicación, incluyendo cuatro etiquetados como críticos, según Mozilla Security Advisories.

Entre las mejoras en estabilidad, hay varios bugs relativos al sistema de almacenamiento utilizado por Firefox, la base de datos SQLite ha sido parcheada para prevenir ciertas situaciones en las que se podía romper el Catálogo.

Para actualizarte, selecciona Buscar Actualizaciones… en el menú Ayuda.

Suppliers can still provide customers with IE 8 or other browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Opera installed. But Microsoft will not bundle Internet Explorer in their original package. So get a copy of Windows 7 in EU from stores and see if the below scenario matches yours…

Imagine booting up freshly installed Windows 7 operating system, just to find that there’s no browser to get online. What the heck?? You run to a friend to get on his system running Linux, XP, Vista or Mac OSX. Just to tell the reason you dont have ay browser. You need to download it from his computer. You get the browser in your flash drive get back home and then get installing the latest drivers. Not much of time wasted for me, because I don’t live in the European Union. But those who live, will definitely curse either EU or Microsoft or both.

For viewing Bangla fonts in different browsers click the following links:

• Bangla setup in Firefox.
• Bangla setup in Opera.
• Bangla setup in Google Chrome.
• More about Bangla setup.

For writing Bangla click the following link:

• Phonetic Bangla writing with Avro Keyboard.

Wie zit te wachten op de RC van Firefox 3.5, zalnog een weekje langer moeten wachten. Mozilla heeft de ReleaseCandidate een week uitgesteld.

De RC van Firefox 3.5 stond gepland voor de eerste week van juni, maar  verklaarde gisteren dat die is uitgesteld naar eind volgende week.

xe2x80x9cNog voordat de RC uitkwam is het ons gelukt om een aantal bugs tevinden die moeten worden opgelostxe2x80x9d, zei Mike Beltzner in een e-mail.Volgens hem is het vinden van die bugs te danken aan grondig testen enhet grotere aantal testers. xe2x80x9cHierdoor wordt het voor ons makkelijker ompotentiele problemen eerder op te sporen dan voorheenxe2x80x9d, zei hij.

Volgens notulen van een vergadering die dinsdag werden gepubliceerdzijn er nog 10 codeblockers zonder fix. De finale versie zou nog steedseind deze maand uit kunnen komen, maar dan moet vanaf nu alles gladjesverlopen en moet Mozilla zich beperken tot xc3xa9xc3xa9n RC.

Firefox 3.5 wordt al langer geplaagd door uitstel,vooral door bugs in de nieuwe JavaScript engine TraceMonkey. Halverwegede ontwikkeling van deze versie is het versienummer verhoogd van 3.1naar 3.5, omdat het een grote stap voorwaarts is.

Bron: Techworld

From the page: “StumbleUpon is just for fun, but it’s such a great way to find new websites and interesting articles, that I tend to get it up and running fairly soon after installing more “useful” tools. “

Type 2. more shiny. darker

Type 3. lighter with less prominent fire.

I defiantly like the 2nd one, it’s more shiny and good looking.

what about you -

So, I am now happy with the current and latest version I am using. But what really is the difference between this (Firefox 3) version compare to the previous ones. Can anybody explain them to me? Thanks a lot in advance.

This post will most definitely be short, but extremely beneficial for the normal PC user. My dad recently downloaded Internet Explorer 8 and for a while, it worked ok. After about two days, however, he noticed severe lag in his computer’s performance. Thinking that perhaps his computer just needed a little maintenance, he proceeded to defrag and clear out unwanted files and folders. Upon restarting his computer, he realized that not only did this not help…but now Internet Explorer 8 wasn’t even working. He couldn’t use this browser to surf the internet, in fact, he couldn’t even connect to the internet at all!

I say all of this to let you know that Internet Explorer 8 (in any release, really) is total junk. As soon as he uninstalled the software AND deleted the “left-over” files (yeah…uninstall didn’t get rid of all the files), his computer was working as good as new.

After a little research on this problem, I have found that he’s not even close to the only one having this exact problem. Every person reporting this issue had downloaded Internet Explorer 8 recently and has nothing but bad reviews of this software. DO NOT USE. Read other thoughts and reviews about Internet Explorer 8.

I encourage everyone to use Mozilla Firefox 3 and/or Google Chrome. These products are FREE and work much MUCH better…not to mention you can customize Firefox with all sorts of add-ons!!

At any rate, the Firefox browser received more exposure than it ever had up to that point. According to the Web site Market Share, Firefox had 18.41 percent of the Web browser market in May 2008. The latest figures show that Firefox accounts for 22.05 percent of the Web browser market as of March 2009. Even with the addition of new browsers like Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome, Firefox has become more popular.

Yesterday, Mozilla released a new build of the Firefox 3 browser: Firefox 3.5 Beta 4. Rather than a total redesign, this build incorporates a few tweaks and changes that should enhance users’ experiences online.

One of those tweaks is Private Browsing Mode, known in the Web surfing biz as “porn mode.” In this mode, the browser doesn’t store any information about the sites you visit. This reduces the chance of accidentally storing a password on the browser and allowing someone else to access your private information. That also means that the search bar won’t retain search terms in its autocomplete feature, nor will the browser store cookies.

The beta build is supposed to be faster than previous versions of Firefox 3. Mozilla claims the Javascript engine Firefox uses is now more stable. The new build also supports HTML 5 audio and video elements. You can read more about the features Mozilla has included in its Firefox 3.5 for developers Web page.

Since this is a beta, I feel it’s important to remind people that beta builds are not always stable. They can be buggy and may not perform as expected. But that’s the purpose of the beta phase — root out any problems so that they can be fixed before the final build goes gold. Since I rely upon Firefox 3 while researching for articles, blogs and podcasts, I think I’ll wait until the build goes gold before I install it on my machine. But if you’re a developer itching to make new applications for the browser, you should grab the new build and go to town.

Want to dive into all things browser related? Check out these articles from HowStuffWorks.com:

How Firefox Works
What’s new with Internet Explorer 8?
How Web Pages Work

April 22, 2009 12:05 AM PDT
by Steven Musil
news.cnet.com

Updated at 11:32 a.m. PST with a summary of the bug fixes.

Mozilla released an update to Firefox 3 on Tuesday that patches 12 security vulnerabilities, four of which it rated as critical.

Firefox 3.0.9, the Web browser’s third update this year, fixes two critical vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser engine and two in its JavaScript engine, according to a security advisory posted Tuesday:

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort, at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

One critical security bug fixed crashes caused by memory corruption, which the developers felt could have been used at some point to run arbitrary code.

Two other high-profile bugs involved a misinterpretation of a particular Adobe Flash code that could have been exploited, and a URI mismatch that also could have led to arbitrary JavaScript executions. However, there’s no evidence in the bugs that these security holes had been exploited.

AOL.com and AIM.com Web mail users should once again be able to view attached images inline and without hiccups. A bug created in Firefox 3.0.7 caused images to break where they had loaded properly in Firefox 3.0.6. Also, users who noticed previously stored cookies mysteriously disappearing should find that bug repaired.

The release comes as Mozilla prepares to release the fourth beta test of Firefox 3.5–the next version of the open-source browser. Mozilla had originally planned to release its new “Shiretoko” version of Firefox in early 2009. But after releasing Firefox 3.1 beta 3 last month, the organization behind the browser said a fourth beta is planned–and with the new version number, 3.5.

Expected changes in Firefox 3.5 include faster execution of Web-based JavaScript programs, a private-browsing mode, native support for the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) technology for exchanging data between servers and browsers, and built-in audio and video abilities for bypassing Flash or other multimedia technologies.

In March, security-testing company Secunia reported that Mozilla had more vulnerabilities in its Web browser last year than Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera combined, but that Mozilla dealt with those flaws more quickly than Microsoft did.

Meanwhile, Firefox continues to chip away at Internet Explorer’s market dominance. Mozilla now has 22.05 percent of the global browser market share, compared with IE’s 66.82 percent, a drop of more than seven percentage points in a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications.

Updates for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are available at the Mozilla site. (Downloads in all languages are available here.) Firefox 3 users will receive an update notification within 48 hours, or they can download the update manually by selecting “Check for Updates” from the Help menu.

CNET’s Seth Rosenblatt contributed to this report.

Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. Before joining CNET News in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers. E-mail Steven.

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Click to compare Firefox 3.0.8 and Firefox 3.0.9

Features :
•It can fix the several security issues.
•It can fix several stability issues.

•Fixed an issue where, starting with Firefox 3.0.7, inline image attachments on popular webmail services (like AOL and AIM) would not display. (bug 482659)
•In certain cases, new windows would not have proper focus. (bug 446568)
•Large forms would sometimes take a long time to submit. (bug 426991)
•Many users experienced an issue where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to “lose” its stored cookies. (bug 470578)
•See the Firefox 3.0.8 release notes for changes in previous releases.

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Mozilla acaba de publicar una nueva actualización para la rama actual de Firefox. Como suele ser norma, esta actualización ofrece una serie de mejoras en estabilidad, y soluciona 9 agujeros de seguridad [en], incluido uno etiquetado como crítico [en], que podía permitir la ejecución de código arbitrario.

Para conseguir la actualización, selecciona Buscar actualizaciones… dentro del menú Ayuda, y sigue las instrucciones de pantalla.

Ten en cuenta que el bug crítico que se ha solucionado en esta versión, se encuentra presente en el último Firefox 2.0.x (sin soporte desde Diciembre), por lo que no habrá una solución para esta versión. Los usuarios de la rama 2 de Firefox, deberían considerar seriamente actualizarse a Firefox 3 lo más pronto posible.