On Tuesday morning, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 to the world.  The new version is literally flying off the shelves.
So far, Mozilla’s servers are holding up fairly well, even as the total downloads cross the 1.6 million mark and counting.
Amazingly, at one point, downloads were approaching 100 per second!
Firefox 3.5 seems fast to us.  We’ve tested [...]

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When is the Firefox 3.5 release date?  Today!
Mozilla is set to release Firefox 3.5 some time Tuesday morning.
“The Mozilla team is mobilizing to ship Firefox 3.5 and it’s looking like Tuesday morning,” a Mozilla spokeswoman has said.
Tuesday’s unveiling will come after several Firefox 3.5 release candidates within the past three weeks.
The first RC was released [...]

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Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.5 Real Candidate 1 (RC1) is here and ready for download.  A “Real Candidate” is one step above a “beta” but is still not quite final.
Installation is recommended only for those who may be curious to see what the next major iteration of Firefox brings to the table.
Be advised that [...]

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Are you an avid Gmail user?  Have you ever wished you could click on those email address links in Firefox without having to worry about Outlook or Outlook Express opening up?
Well, in Firefox 3 you can solve this problem. Gmail has been added to the list of mail apps and it’s quite simple to [...]

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Here’s a warning for all Windows users…and the best part is that you can’t (easily) do a damned thing about it.
Apparently, what should be a fairly ordinary security update for a Microsoft Windows component that’s already loaded onto millions of computers, has also installed an extra “care package” for those of us using Mozilla Firefox.
A [...]

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Google has released an update to its Chrome browser today, taking it to version 1.0.154.64.
The update fixes two major security weaknesses within Chrome, one of which would allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the logged on user.  That’s about as bad as it gets so, yes, this is a [...]

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Mozilla released an important update to Firefox 3 on Tuesday.  The update fixes 12 security issues with the browser, four of which it says are “critical.”
Firefox 3.0.9 is Mozilla’s third update this year for the browser.  It fixes two critical vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser engine and two in its JavaScript engine, according to a [...]

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Mozilla Labs has just released the 0.3 version of Weave, a service that will sync multiple browsers.
Weave lets you sync all of your bookmarks, tabs, passwords, and histories on Firefox browsers on different computers. New in today’s version, you can now sync with Fennec, the Firefox mobile browser that can be used on the [...]

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PC World is reporting on a new vulnerability in Mozilla’s Firefox browser.
Mozilla’s Director of Security Engineering is referring to this as a “critical” issue.  A fix is scheduled for release along with a version update at the start of next week.
The attack code, written by security researcher Guido Landi was published on several security sites [...]

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Foxmarks is one of the most useful add-ons for Firefox that exists today. Now, Foxmarks is changing its name to Xmarks.
Not only does the tool help you synchronize all of your bookmarks and passwords between multiple instances of Firefox on different computers, but now it also uses this massive amount of user-generated data to create [...]

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