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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5

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Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 today, roughly one month since it was pushed out as a Release Candidate. The major update delivers several new features and performance improvements that make this new version one you won't want to miss.

Firefox 3.5 is designed with new Web standards in mind and contains support for new Web technologies that will make it more interactive and speedier. Indeed, our own Sam Dean took the beta version out for a spin and was happy enough with the speed to use it as my primary browser and reach for an older Firefox version when I need extensions.

 



Mozilla Japan Uses Firefox to Promote Nature Conservancy

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As the release of Firefox 3.5 approaches (codenamed Shiretoko), Mozilla Japan has come up with a unique way to promote the version. They've teamed up with Japan's Shiretoko Nature Foundation and designed an interactive Web site named Discover Shiretoko that teaches visitors about the new browser version as well as the national park after which it was named.

Shiretoko and Firefox: A Story in Four Parts examines how Firefox and the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site have more in common that it may seem at first glance. Both, for instance, rely heavily on the power of the volunteer community.

 



Firefox 3.5 Now Out as Release Candidate 3

If you're using any of the previous betas or Release Candidates of Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browser, which is a major upgrade to previous versions, there is now a third version of the Release Candidate out. Firefox 3.5, RC3, is available for download for Windows, the Mac and Linux, here. Mozilla has a post up about the release here, although there aren't a lot of clear details on what is new in this release. The updates are very likely to be bug fixes and security updates.?


Microsoft Has 10 Grand For You if You're Willing to Use Internet Explorer

We've written extensively about the declining market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which is being challenged from every angle by open source browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is already the number one browser in Europe, is vastly more extensible than Internet Explorer, and is out in an excellent new Release Candidate version 3.5. ?The European Commission is also pressuring Microsoft on its distribution practices for its browser.

How desperate is Microsoft to woo users to its Internet Explorer version 8 browser? Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker points out in a blog post that Microsoft is now offering $10,000 in prize money buried somewhere on the Internet which you can only find if you use Internet Explorer. Come on Microsoft, Internet Explorer needs a lot more than this marketing campaign to shore up its prospects.



Using Firefox 3.5, RC 1? Make Sure to Use the iMacros Extension Too

As I'm getting familiar with the new Release Candidate 1 of Firefox 3.5, I'm also busy trying out my favorite Firefox extensions to make sure they all work with it. I'm happy to report that may most favorite Firefox extension, iMacros, works like a charm with it. If you haven't used iMacros, it can make you much more efficient, in many ways. The extension makes it about as easy to create macros for repetitive tasks you perform online as it is to operate a DVD player. You can even save macros that execute complicated tasks as Bookmarks. If you missed our step-by-step visual tour of how to create your first macro in iMacros, you'll find it here below the fold, and it's also worth looking at the iMacros demos available online.?


Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 Arrives--Get to Know It

Firefox 3.5, Release Candidate 1, has arrived--a couple of days early. You can download it and view the release notes here. I've been using every beta of this release, which was originally to be Firefox 3.1, and it's unquestionably the best browser going. There are over 5,000 new features in it, and it has much faster Javascript performance than previous versions. Our sister blog, WebWorkerDaily, already put it through the SunSpider Javascript benchmarks. Here's how it performs compared to the beta, and compared to Google Chrome, as well as more details.


Firefox 3.5, RC1, Slated for Friday--Many New Features

Mozilla's much awaited Release Candidate of the Firefox 3.5 browser has been through several delays, but, as Webware reports, Firefox director Mike Beltzner says it will arrive this Friday. Beltzner also says the final release of Firefox 3.5 will come out before the end of the month. If you haven't been using the beta versions of the the browser, it's much faster, and has more than 5,000 new features. Mozilla is also pointing out some articles and video demos that show off the new features.?


Opera Breathes Down Firefox's and Chrome's Necks With Unite

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Though the Opera browser isn't open source, it's free and its new server-in-a-browser feature, Unite, is really making significant inroads toward online collaboration. If Chrome and Firefox are to keep their edge over Opera, their development teams had better sit up and take notice.

Opera's Unite technology lets users run chat rooms, host Web sites, and share files that even people not using Opera can access. The interaction is all done via a central Opera Unite server ? Opera Unite uses a proxy between the server and its clients (found at operaunite.com) to avoid the need for any special firewall configuration, writes the development team. Unite launched today with six features but is calling on the Opera community to design and create any new services they'd like to see available.

Read on to have a look at what Opera unite can already do and why Google and Mozilla haven't cornered the market on browsers just yet.



Microsoft to Remove the IE Browser from Windows 7 PCs in Europe

We've made the point many times that most of the innovation in Internet browsers is coming from the open source players, particularly Firefox. That trend has continued to drive Firefox's market share up, and it sits at over 22 percent market share right now. At the same time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has continued to lose share, at well under 70 percent and dropping now. Nowhere are these trends more pronounced than in Europe, where Firefox now has dominant market share over Internet Explorer. That's why, as CNet reports, it's big news that Microsoft plans to remove Internet Explorer from the versions of Windows 7 that it will ship in Europe. The big beneficiary here is very likely to be Firefox.


Discovering and Auto-Installing Extensions with Mozilla's Collections

Everyone who uses Mozilla's Firefox browser knows that it gets much of its power from the thousands of useful extensions available for it. Some Firefox extensions are so powerful that they almost qualify as applications unto themselves, as I find to be true with the awesome iMacros extension. As announced on the Mozilla Add-Ons blog today, Mozilla has introduced Collections, which, among other things, will let you click one link to put a whole set of your favorite Firefox extensions on a new installation of the browser. You can find a video showing how Collections works here, and there are already several useful looking Collections available at the Add-ons for Firefox site (see the right side of the page).?


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