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mozilla.com - 18 days ago
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 Release Notes
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You can remove Firefox 3.5 through the Control Panel in the Start Menu on Windows, by removing the Firefox application on OS X, or by removing the firefox folder on Linux. Removing Firefox 3.5 won’t remove your bookmarks, web browsing history, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in ...
blog.mozilla.com - 15 days ago
Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!
— blog.mozilla.com — You say it’s your birthday…Well it’s our birthday too! Five years ago today, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 with belief that, as the most significant social and technological development of our time, the Internet is a public resource ... (more) Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!

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“Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner Announced, Plus a New Design Challenge!
blog.mozilla.com - 15 days ago
“Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner Announced, Plus a New Design Challenge!
— blog.mozilla.com — The results from the Mozilla Creative Collective’s “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge are in, and I’m happy to announce that the winner is “Pocketfox”, by Yaroslaff Chekunov. As the official emblem of the ... (more) “Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner Announced, Plus a New ...

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5 years of Firefox
hacks.mozilla.org - 15 days ago
5 years of Firefox
— hacks.mozilla.org — Firefox is five years old. We thought that we would celebrate that by talking about how the web has changed over the last five years and Firefox’s role in those changes. Where We’re At 2009 has been an interesting year. We’re at a ... (more) 5 years of Firefox

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The Register:  Firefox and Chrome updates spike stability bugs

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home:  Crash-prone Firefox gets another update

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Firefox and Chrome updates spike stability bugs
The Register — Mozilla has pushed out a new version of Firefox that fixes a number of stability bugs that pose possible security concerns. Firefox 3.5.5, which comes only a week after the release of 3.5.4, addressed a start-up crash problem and crashes in the GIF image decoder of the open source browser, among other bugs (as explained here ). The flaws create a possible means to crash browser with malformed code on websites but their main importance is as an irritation that impairs users ability to surf the web without irksome browser crashes. A new version of Google Chrome, also released on ...

Crash-prone Firefox gets another update
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Firefix 3.5.5 is out from the Mozilla people—the response to yet another “annoying” buy. What do you think, gang? Is nirvana at hand or close? I have it going right now, and at least the startup was smooth. The suspense builds. Downloads are here; release notes, here. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. ...

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