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Camino 1.6.3 released

by Christina Warren (Aug 8th, 2008)

Camino, the best Gecko-based browser NOT named Firefox 3, has just been updated to version 1.6.3. This update, which seems to have rolled in 1.6.2 along with it (at least I never got the 1.6.2 notification, and I use Camino pretty frequently), sports the latest update to the Gecko 1.8.1 branch, ...

Firefox 3 Download Day a huge success

by Steven Sande (Jul 3rd, 2008)

The graphic above says it all -- Firefox 3 Download Day was a success, with 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours. Amazingly, this happened despite all of the initial download glitches that happened on Download Day. The Mozilla team is reporting that 29,116,621 copies of Firefox 3 have been downloaded ...

Take back your iWeb galleries in Firefox 3

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 2008)

Just as Firefox users were upgrading to version 3 last week, many people started to miss their iWeb-created galleries as they just disappeared. Well, one iWeb user has been doing extra work to fix Apple's? (erm... Mozilla's?) problem. Joshua Ochs has posted an in-depth article on his site ...

Optimized Firefox 3 builds available

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 22nd, 2008)

Neil Lee has updated his optimized Firefox builds for Firefox 3. The architecture-specific versions of Firefox 2 had been dubbed BonEcho, but Firefox 3 brings a new moniker: Minefield. I'm unsure as to the intended implications of the name (it sounds like the perfect way to refer to an alpha ...

Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3: typography showdown

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 19th, 2008)

Ralf Herrmann recently took a look at the new typography features found in Firefox 3, pitting them against what's been available in Safari 3 for a while. The results show some major advances, and some major problems. The current OpenType or Apple Advanced Typography features in Firefox 3 include ...

MultiFireFox 2.0

by Scott McNulty (Jun 18th, 2008)

Given the fact that lots of folks are downloading FireFox 3 as of late, I thought this might be a good time to highlight MultiFireFox 2.0. MultiFireFox 2.0 lets you run up to 5 versions of FireFox side by side. Why would you want to do this? If you're a web developer you probably want to check your ...

Despite a rough start, Firefox 3 Download Day a success

by Steven Sande (Jun 18th, 2008)

As reported earlier here on TUAW, Firefox 3 Download Day began with a whimper instead of a bang. Starting shortly after the official launch, TUAW received a number of tips from readers who tried downloading the vulpine browser and got...nothing. It appears that things cleared up fairly quickly. ...

Mozilla struggles with Firefox 3 release

by Robert Palmer (Jun 17th, 2008)

Promised at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern), Mozilla was eager to set a one-day world-record for the release of Firefox 3. With most of the day already gone for much of the world, and nary an update to be seen, it's looking bad for June 17. Getfirefox.com alternates between being entirely ...

Get your Firefox on: Firefox Download Day

by Cory Bohon (Jun 17th, 2008)

Just a reminder, as Robert hinted half an hour ago today is "Download Day" for Firefox 3. If you haven't yet downloaded the official 3.0 release, be sure to do it today! Firefox is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. At 10 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT) head over ...

Firefox 3 Download Day is June 17th

by Steven Sande (Jun 14th, 2008)

As we noted a few weeks ago, the Mozilla team has set up a pledge program to remind Firefox users to download the Firefox 3 browser within 24 hours of its release in order to nab a Guinness World Record. Well, the day is getting close - Firefox Download Day 2008 is scheduled for June 17th around ...

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