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Nightly > Aurora > Beta > Final. Firefox Gets New Release Cycle

Mozilla has announced new release cycle for Firefox. Developers, webmasters, beta testers and end-users have now new options for release channels. Continue reading

Firefox for Android Comes To Android Market

Mozilla has just released an updated version of Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo. Firefox 4 for Android is now available in the Android Market, which allows users to install Firefox on their Android devices directly from the market. Continue reading

Remove Icons From Firefox’s Bookmarks Toolbar

If you have many items on Bookmarks toolbar, and you wish to save some space there by removing bookmarks’ icons – try a new Firefox add-on: bookmarks-deiconizer. Continue reading

Firefox 4 Release Rescheduled To Early 2011

Mozilla has rescheduled its program to release the next major release of Firefox, the Firefox 4. Now, Firefox 4 is expected to be release in early 2011. Continue reading

Firefox Restartless Add-ons Appear In AMO

A great news for the users who hate restarting Firefox after installing (or uninstalling) add-ons to apply changes: Restartless Add-ons are now available in Add-on gallery. The restartless feature is only for the users of Firefox 4 (currently in beta). Continue reading

Restore Previous Session At Any Point After Start-up, Firefox 4 To Get A New Feature

Firefox 4 will have another exciting and useful feature: Users will be able to restore previous session at any point after start up. Firefox 4 will have an entry in the History menu to restore previous session, which can be used at any point to load previous session. Continue reading

Mozilla’s New JavaScript Engine, JägerMonkey, Makes Firefox Four Times Faster!

Mozilla developers are working on a new JavaScript optimizer for Firefox based browsers. This new JIT compiler, JägerMonkey, is now available for the testing and will be integrated to Firefox soon to replace current optimizer, TraceMonkey. Continue reading

Hardware Acceleration And HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in Firefox 4

Mozilla today released another beta version of Firefox. This release, Firefox 4 beta 5 has the Direct2D acceleration activated by default for Windows Vista/7. This Hardware acceleration feature makes page-drawing operations faster. Continue reading

Mozilla Firefox Brings Contacts In Browser

Mozilla has released an experimental add-on for Firefox and other Mozilla based browsers: Contacts. This add-on brings your contacts to the browser and saves them natively there. Continue reading

Major UI Changes Coming To Greasemonkey Add-on For Firefox

The developers of Greasemonkey add-on are now working on some big changes in user interface. In coming version, list of user scripts will show up in a pane of the default Add-ons window. Continue reading