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Frugalware 1.6 Comes With Cinnamon and Firefox 10

Miklós Vajna proudly announced on February 12th, the immediate availability for download of the Frugalware 1.6 (Fermus) Linux operating system. "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.6, our sixteenth stable release. No new features have been added ...

13 February 2012
03:19 GMT

Webconverger 11.2 Has Firefox 10

The Webconverger project, an evolution of the hybrid client for deployments in places like offices or Internet cafes where only web applications are used, is now at version 11.2. The previous version of Webconverger, 11, has managed to become a popular release, so the developers have decided to expand it a little and...

8 February 2012
07:45 GMT

Enable "Smooth Scrolling" in Firefox for Greatly Enhanced Scrolling Animations

The latest Firefox 12 Aurora comes with one small tweak that may even go unnoticed, but it is going to make a lot of difference for a lot of users. Firefox 12 comes with Smooth Scrolling enabled by default. The technology has been built into Firefox for a long time now, but it has been buried away in the Firefox pre...

7 February 2012
15:31 GMT

Firefox 10 vs Firefox 9 – Kraken Benchmark

Firefox 10 has been released at the end of January and we’ve all seen the new features it offers. However, the performance of the web browser, compared to the previous version, also changed, for the better, as you can see from the results of our testing. We compared Firefox 10 and 9 in Kraken JavaScript benchm...

6 February 2012
15:21 GMT

Firefox 10 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 11.10

Yes! Dear Ubuntu users, Softpedia is proud to inform you that Canonical uploaded the final bits of the Mozilla Firefox 10.0 web browser on the official software repositories for the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system. Wait, that's not all! Firefox 10.0 is also available, right now, for the Ubuntu 1...

4 February 2012
00:23 GMT

Firefox 10 and Thunderbird 10 Arrive on Ubuntu 12.04

Preparing for the second Alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Canonical updated last evening its default web browser and email client to Firefox 10 and Thunderbird 10, respectively. As you all probably already know, Mozilla officially unleashed later last night, January ...

1 February 2012
12:11 GMT

Firefox 10 Extended Support Release Promises One Year of Updates

Along with Firefox 10, Mozilla has made available the first ever Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox. This version will enjoy support, security patches mainly, for at least one year before a new version is launched. The idea is to give enterprises and other big organizations a chance to test the browser and ad...

1 February 2012
07:51 GMT

What's New in Firefox 10 for Developers

Mozilla started working on a set of built-in developer tools not long ago. Since then, it's been making considerable progress and, with Firefox 10, the tools are now pretty useful. Firefox 10 debuts a very snazzy looking but also very useful Web Inspector which enables developers to find out more about a page b...

1 February 2012
06:41 GMT

Firefox 10 Is Here, New Features Rundown

Firefox 10 is now available for download and should be pushed via the update channel to all Firefox users over the next few days. The latest release brings a number of features, though regular users will only notice some small tweaks and changes, like the removal of the forward button, unless it's needed. Devel...

1 February 2012
04:57 GMT

Firefox 10 Stable – Known Issues

The official release notes were not available at the moment we wrote about the availability of the Firefox 10 binaries on their servers. Now they're out. Overall, there are no surprises, but apart from introducing new features the developer also solved a set of issues. However, some of the bugs have not been el...

1 February 2012
04:17 GMT

Firefox 10 for Android Now Available for Download

Yesterday, Mozilla made available for download its Firefox 10 browser in final flavor, and the owners of devices running under Google’s Android operating system can also get a taste of it. In the new Firefox for Android version, Mozilla included a better Sync set-up, which is complemented by a series of bug ...

1 February 2012
03:17 GMT

About Firefox 10 for Mac OS X

In the release notes accompanying Firefox 10 Final for Mac OS X, Mozilla has confirmed that users will (or should) no longer experience crashes when closing a tab with a Java applet installed. Growl integration, however, still needs more work to behave properly. The changelog for Firefox 10.0 was published yesterday...

1 February 2012
02:58 GMT

Firefox 10 Debuts a Fullscreen API for Video, Games and Aps

Firefox 10 is about to land. One of the new features that Mozilla is boasting about is support for the Fullscreen API, part of the HTML5 standard. At this point, Firefox, Chrome and Safari all support the feature, meaning that developers can start leveraging it in their web apps. "One thing which has been very impor...

31 January 2012
08:03 GMT

Firefox 10 Stable Available for Download

Some of you may have noticed that the stable version of Firefox 10 is already available for download on Softpedia. As usual, Mozilla made the binaries available on their servers prior to the official launch, accompanied by the release notes for this version. The highlights for this release revolve around add-ons, as...

31 January 2012
02:45 GMT

Download Firefox 10 Final for Linux

Ladies and gentlemen, Mozilla unofficially released today, January 31st, the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 10.0 web browser for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. As usual, there's no official announcement yet, but the binary and source archives of the final version of Mozilla Firefox 10.0 were ...

31 January 2012
02:23 GMT

Minor Issues and Bugs in Firefox 10 Will Be Fixed via an Add-on Rather than a Full Update

Mozilla is testing an interesting new feature in the upcoming Firefox 10, now in beta, the ability to fix issues and release patches of sorts via an add-on rather than a full browser update. It's easy to see the advantages of this, even Firefox's semi-automated update process involves a lot of hassle and o...

23 January 2012
09:51 GMT

Firefox 10 May Cause Problems with UA Detection Code on Some Sites

Firefox is about to go through a major milestone, a symbolic but important one nonetheless, its version number will get two digits with the release of Firefox 10 to the stable channel, i.e. the one that most people are using. With this comes a surprising but noteworthy issue though, some user agent (UA) detection sc...

23 January 2012
05:41 GMT

Firefox Beta Tests Add-on Hotfix Feature

Starting with Firefox 10, Mozilla will start delivering hotfixes for its web browser, via an add-on, in order to have fewer full updates pushed to users. Firefox beta users are the first testers of the feature, as Mozilla pushes today an automatically downloaded test add-on. The component is visible in the Add-ons...

21 January 2012
05:07 GMT

Firefox 10 Stable Scheduled for Release on January 31

Firefox 10 b4 is now available for download. And it looks like this build is also very close to entering the release candidate stage and then become the new stable release, as development stages have already been marked towards this end. Code freezing for Firefox 10 is scheduled for January 20, while the release can...

12 January 2012
07:02 GMT

Firefox 10 Will Be the First Extended Support Release with 1 Year of Security Updates

Mozilla has announced that it will be releasing an Extended Support Release build of Firefox. The decision has been made and Firefox 10 will be the first ESR. This release will be supported for a year, more or less, at which point a new ESR will be made available, Firefox 17.There are still some minor details to work...

10 January 2012
16:10 GMT

Canonical Migrates Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10 to Firefox 9

In an announcement published later last night, January 9th, Canonical decided to upgrade the default web browser of its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) products to the latest Firefox version. This is a very smart move from Canonical, as Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are still sup...

10 January 2012
06:21 GMT

In Firefox 10, All Add-ons Will Be Compatible by Default, Help Test Them Out

Firefox 10 has been in the beta channel for a couple of weeks now and is well underway to becoming the next Firefox. One of the big new features in the upcoming release, not so much from a technical point of view but from an impact point of view, is add-on compatibility. Essentially, most if not all add-ons will be ...

6 January 2012
13:51 GMT

Firefox 10 Beta 2 Records Over 11,000 Crash Reports in a Week

The latest beta build of Firefox (b2) has been floating on the Internet for about a week now, having been spotted on Mozilla’s servers around December 29. However, since release, Mozilla has received over 11,000 crash reports for Firefox 10 B2, peaking at over 5K in 24 hours. The development team has not yet f...

4 January 2012
12:21 GMT

How to Install Firefox 10 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04

The following tutorial will teach all Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) users how to update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 10.0 web browser. Mozilla Firefox 10 will bring features such as implementation of Anti-Aliasing for WebGL, the forward button is hidden by default and it will...

1 January 2012
05:00 GMT

Download a New Copy Plain Text Add-on for Firefox 9

Copy Plain Text is a very useful add-on for Mozilla products, especially for Firefox, when you deal with lots of text copying from web pages on a daily basis. The old Copy Plain Text, created by Jeremy Gillick, died at version 0.3.3 and it dosen't work anymore with current versions of Firefox or Thunderbird.Even...

29 December 2011
11:31 GMT

What's New in Firefox 10 Beta for Developers

The Firefox 10 Beta brings a decent set of new features for end users, but it's also bringing a lot of new features aimed at developers, from new capabilities to dedicated tools. The star of the show has to be the new web inspector tool. It enables developers to quickly analyze a web page with the visual tool. ...

27 December 2011
14:01 GMT

Download Firefox 10 Beta for Android

Mozilla has just made available for download a new Beta version of its Firefox mobile browser for devices running under Google’s Android operating system. We’re referring here to Firefox 10, which has just come out of the Aurora channel, and which landed in Beta today, while expected to graduate to a sta...

23 December 2011
13:21 GMT

Firefox 10 Beta Is Here, What You Need to Know

With Firefox 9 launched and made available to everyone, all of the other Firefox versions, further upstream, will migrate to a new channel. Already, Firefox 10 has landed in the Beta channel, from Aurora. As is the norm, there are no huge changes or new features in Firefox 10, but there are a few interesting additio...

23 December 2011
08:11 GMT

Firefox 10 Beta Available for Download

Firefox 10 beta has just rolled out, officially, after spending a brief period of time on Mozilla’s servers as a release candidate. Bug fixing is the focus of this build, but some new elements have also been introduced. The new stuff available in this release includes a hidden “forward” button, unt...

23 December 2011
04:04 GMT

Firefox Aurora 10 – Silent Updates and Improved Sync Setup

A new build for Firefox 9 beta has been released today, but most users are more interested in the development of Aurora. The work on silent updates feature is close to completion, as removing the UAC popups in Windows was among the thorniest problems. The team expects the feature to be delivered sometime next week. ...

1 December 2011
07:24 GMT

Firefox Aurora Flaunts Web Developer Tools in Video

The web developer tools in Firefox Aurora are not exactly news, but Mozilla just came up with a video to further draw attention on the flexibility of the Page Inspector.The clip is an introductory tutorial for using the Page Inspector and its abilities to check page elements. The tool is pretty intuitive and element ...

28 November 2011
10:54 GMT

Firefox 10 Aurora Gets a Gorgeous 'Web Inspector' Developers Will Love

Not so long ago, Mozilla realized that it needs to cater to developers more, especially since it's such a community friendly company. So it started building some developer tools inside Firefox.None have been as gorgeous as the new Web Inspector in Firefox 10 Aurora. The tool, as the name would suggest, enables y...

17 November 2011
15:31 GMT

Firefox Aurora 10 Hides ‘Forward’ Button

The official list for the latest Firefox Aurora is out. Pinned at the top is the entry informing that the “forward” button is not present at all times on Windows. It is hidden until you need it, that is until you hit the “back” button.New features listed in the new version include implementati...

12 November 2011
04:55 GMT

Firefox Aurora 10 for Android Arrives

A new version of Firefox Aurora is now available for download for the users of devices running under Google's Android operating system, following the release of new application flavors in the official and beta channels. The new Aurora flavor of Firefox builds on the enhancements that have been introduced in...

12 November 2011
04:36 GMT

Firefox 10 Aurora Is About to Land, Here's What You Need to Know

With Firefox 8 now available to everyone in the stable channel, all of the other Firefox versions are graduating as well. Firefox 9 is moving from Aurora to the Beta channel, Firefox 10 is moving from the Nightly channel to Aurora.For the users who want the cutting edge, Firefox 10 should be the interesting release. ...

10 November 2011
15:31 GMT

Firefox Aurora 10 Expected Features

The latest Aurora has not yet been pushed to the users through Firefox’s update system, but the build is currently available for download. As far as the features are concerned, Mozilla plans on changing the new tab page and add some color and functionality to it. The goal is to offer options that cut on the na...

10 November 2011
05:06 GMT


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