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97% of Chrome users running the latest version

The Browser Guru — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:15:17 +0000

According to “Why Silent Updates Boost Security” (download PDF), 97% of Chrome users were running the latest version of the browser within 21 days of the last update’s release.

By comparison, 85% of Firefox users were up-to-date in the same span, while only 53% Safari users could say the same.

Firefox 3.6.8 released

The Browser Guru — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:49:28 +0000

Security Advisories Fixed in Firefox 3.6.8:

MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

From http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html

Firefox 3.6.6

The Browser Guru — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:21:21 +0000

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

Firefox gets crash protection with release of version 3.6.4

The Browser Guru — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:13:00 +0000

Firefox 3.6.4 has been released with crash protection for Adobe’s Flash Player, Apple ‘s QuickTime and Microsoft ‘s Silverlight plug-ins, and is available only in Firefox for Windows and Linux . Mozilla is still working on the “out of process plug-ins,” or OOPP feature, for the Mac version.

The version also patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Firefox 3.5.10

The Browser Guru — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:11:00 +0000

Firefox 3.5.10 has been released – it patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Firefox 3.6.2

The Browser Guru — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:08:30 +0000

Mozilla yesterday released a beta version of the Firefox 3.6 browser to fix several stability and security issues.

Firefox 3.6.2 has been released to Mozilla’s beta tester community, and includes several bug fixes such as crashes when using Adobe’s ClickMap add-on. Other problems reported by some users, such as there being no prompt to update extensions for the browser when Firefox was upgraded, have been fixed in the new version.

The beta isn’t aimed at all surfers, though changes will eventually be implemented in the full, stable version of Firefox 3.6.

You can download the Firefox 3.6.2 beta from the Mozilla website.

Firefox 3.6 was launched in January, with Firefox being the second-most popular browser after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, though Microsoft’s dominance of the browser market is already being eroded after it was forced to offer everyone using it’s operating system the chance to switch to another browser – Opera has already reported a rise in the number of people using its browser as a consequence.

Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18

The Browser Guru — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:14:25 +0000

Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers’ Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced scripting functionality that lets
site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread to reduce the performance hit on Firefox’s user interface. The fixes are already in the 3.6 release.

Cloud Testing has updated it’s agents with the latest versions.

Firefox 3.6 RC1

The Browser Guru — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:28:55 +0000

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.

Made some changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
This release candidate is available in more than 70 languages – get your local version.
More than 70 fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
Support for the WOFF font format.
Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

Firefox 3.0.17

The Browser Guru — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:40 +0000

What’s New in Firefox 3.0.17

Firefox 3.0.17 fixes the following issue:

Fixed a problem with how updates were being presented to users.
See the Firefox 3.0.16 release notes for changes in previous releases.

See the complete list of bugs fixed.

Firefox 3.5.7

The Browser Guru — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:13:44 +0000

What’s New in Firefox 3.5.7

Firefox 3.5.7 fixes the following issues:

Fixed a common stability issue.
Fixed a problem with how updates were being presented to users.

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.6 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.