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Firefox 3.6 Users Will Be Automatically Upgraded to Firefox 12

Firefox 3.6 users will be upgraded to Firefox 12, the latest stable release, in early May, whether they like it or not. The ancient Firefox 3.6's end of life was on April 24. No more security updates will be issued, leaving users completely defenseless. There may be millions of Firefox 3.6 users left, Mozilla c...

30 April 2012
08:35 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Will Be Dead in a Month, Get Ready for the Switch

Firefox 4 and the subsequent deluge of releases has been too much to swallow for some people who stuck with their tried and tested Firefox 3.6. To some it was a problem of add-on compatibility, for others things simply moved too fast.Whatever the reason, all these users need to start thinking about life after Firefox...

24 March 2012
10:21 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Users Will Be Nudged to Update to the Upcoming Firefox 8

Mozilla plans to notify Firefox 3.6 users that there's a newer Firefox out there and that they can update if they want to. Mozilla planned to offer this notification for Firefox 7 initially, but postponed the move and will now offer it for Firefox 8, which is coming out in about a week.On 17 of November, 2011, a...

4 November 2011
15:41 GMT

Mozilla Postpones Update Notifications for Firefox 3.6.x Users

Mozilla just announced that the mass notifications for users working with Firefox 3.6.x it had planned for today is postponed to a date yet to be announced.The developer made clear that there are no implications at support levels and it does not mean Firefox 3.6 has reached end of life. It simply means that users of ...

6 October 2011
16:52 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Users Will Be Reminded that Firefox 7 Exists and That They Can Upgrade

While Mozilla is moving ahead with its rapid release cycle and has now pushed three major versions through it, two if you don't count Firefox 5 which was an interim release. Yet, despite the amount of publicity this has gotten, plenty of people are still happily running the rather ancient Firefox 3.6.Some may ha...

6 October 2011
11:55 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Still More than Two Times as Popular as Firefox 4

Firefox 6 is out the door and landing on people's computers, Firefox 7 is getting ready to take the center stage in a few weeks' time. This only a few months after Firefox 4 came about. You'd think then that Mozilla has been fairly successful getting its users to upgrade and get accustomed to the rapid...

29 August 2011
07:11 GMT

Firefox 3.5 Users to Be Automatically Updated to 3.6 Next Month

Mozilla has been making quite a lot of interesting moves lately, when it comes to releases and updates, and it's not done yet. The organization is making another rather bold move and will upgrade Firefox 3.5 users automatically to Firefox 3.6 about a month from now.It's the first time that Mozilla has plann...

16 May 2011
12:00 GMT

Mozilla: Killing Firefox 3.5 a Priority

Mozilla is making the death of Firefox 3.5 a priority, and this should not be a real surprise, considering the last update to the open source browser released at the end of April 2011. Version 3.5.19 released last month is the last update that will be delivered to Firefox 3.5. Customers have two new versions of Fire...

12 May 2011
10:05 GMT

IE8 Is Killing IE6 and Outpacing Chrome 5.0 and Firefox 3.6

Internet Explorer 8’s strong adoption pace means that the predecessor of Internet Explorer 9 continues to be the fastest growing browser worldwide, outpacing rivals such as Chrome 5.0 and Firefox 3.6, even at 18 months after it was initially released. Furthermore, IE8 is helping kill Internet Explorer 6, accor...

1 September 2010
09:33 GMT

The Death of Firefox 3.5

According to the download page for Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has already killed off this browser version.Users visiting the site that allows them to grab the previous iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser are welcomed by a message noting that August 2010 was the last month in which the browser vendor supplied ...

1 September 2010
02:34 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6.4 Beta Build 5

A new development milestone of Firefox 3.6.4 is now available for download, as the browser version is approximately a week away from release. The third not-so-minor update to Firefox 3.6 has been cooking for almost two months now, and Build 5 of Beta for version 3.6.4 was offered to testers at the end of the past wee...

24 May 2010
03:30 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 Lorentz Beta (3.6.3 Plugin 1 / v3.6.4)

Mozilla is moving onward with the development of its open source browser, and is cooking a consistent evolution to the latest finalized version of Firefox. Breaking from the traditional minor, stability and security update cycle, Mozilla is gearing up to release an upgrade to Firefox 3.6. Fact is that, even before Fi...

9 April 2010
03:12 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6.3

The second update to the latest iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser is now available for download. And although Firefox 3.6.3 could have in fact been the refresh that brought Firefox Codenamed Lorentz to users, fact is that the latest release is nothing more than a security update. With Firefox 3.6.3, Mo...

2 April 2010
02:50 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6.2

The first update to Firefox 3.6 has been released and is now available for download. Users of the latest iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser can grab the bits and push their browser version all the way to 3.6.2. Softpedia readers have already been informed that Mozilla planned to skip 3.6.1 altogether, a...

23 March 2010
04:24 GMT

Forget Firefox 3.0, the End Is Near, Look to Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.0 will not live to see its two-year anniversary while fully supported by Mozilla. This is because, at the end of this month, Firefox 3.0 will get its last security and stability update, ever. Plans are to stop refreshing the successor of v3.5 after the last update, for the open source browser version drops ...

17 March 2010
11:52 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Major Automatic Upgrades for Firefox 3.5 and Older Releases

Approximately two months after the general availability deadline of the latest iteration of its open source browser, Mozilla has given the green light to automatic updates designed to migrate users to version 3.6. According to Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, Firefox 3.6 has already accounted for in excess of 100 ...

12 March 2010
03:36 GMT

Exploit Code Available for Unpatched Firefox Bug

A Russian security research company has released a working exploit for a previously undisclosed vulnerability in the latest version of Firefox. The zero-day attack code can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code remotely and is confirmed to work on Windows XP and Vista.The flaw affecting Firefox 3.6, the latest stabl...

19 February 2010
06:58 GMT

Download Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18

Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 are now available for download, pushing one step further version 3.0 and 3.5 of Mozilla’s open source browser. Users have been able to read right here on Softpedia that the latest security and stability updates for the two still-supported flavors of Firefox which preceded Firefo...

18 February 2010
02:46 GMT

IE8 on Windows 7 vs. Safari 4 on Snow Leopard Hack Contest

Hackers will take turns at breaking into computers running Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X Snow Leopard via browser-related security holes at this year’s Pwn2Own contest held at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, starting on March 24th 2010. This year, the Pwn2Own organizers have...

16 February 2010
10:53 GMT

Firefox 3.6.2 Next, 3.6 at over 22.6 Million Downloads

At just a little over a week since release, the latest iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser was downloaded in excess of 22.6 million times, closing in to 22.7 downloads. However, Mozilla is not the one to rest on its laurels. In fact, the company is hard at work cooking the first stability and security up...

29 January 2010
13:41 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Downloaded 17 Million Times in the First Week

Firefox 3.6 has been out for almost a week now, but the latest major release is proving less popular than its predecessors, at least it terms of downloads, if only slightly so. This isn't completely surprising as 3.6 is more of an evolutionary build which, while coming with quite a few new features and updates, ...

27 January 2010
03:51 GMT

Google Chrome Is Finally Ready to Take On Firefox

Google Chrome has been around for more than a year, yet only now it has become a real alternative to Firefox. People loved Chrome's speed and innovative interface, but a few major flaws and missing features prevented most of them from switching. With every release things got better and the last major hurdles ar...

26 January 2010
04:21 GMT

Firefox 3.6 - Under the Hood

Mozilla's first major update since summer of its popular web browser Firefox has just landed after several months in development and more than a couple of delays, as it has been the norm at Mozilla. Now that Firefox 3.6 is finally here, let's see what's changed since the big 3.5 release. As you'd...

22 January 2010
10:12 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Final Available for Download

The final development milestone of Firefox 3.6 has been released to web and is currently available for download for users of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Earlier this week, Mozilla was considering either January 21st, or January 25th, for the general availability of Firefox 3.6, formerly codenamed Namoroka. The Janua...

21 January 2010
03:23 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 Final on January 21st, 2010

UPDATE: Firefox 3.6 Final Available for Download - get it right here. This is it. The wait is over, Firefox 3.6, formerly codenamed Namoroka, is literally just around the corner. Mozilla has announced the official general availability deadline for the release considered a minor update to Firefox 3.5, managing to live...

20 January 2010
02:41 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 RC2 (Release Candidate)

The delayed Firefox 3.6 is almost here, with the developers ironing out the final minor kinks. The release candidate version became available a little over a week ago, but it looks like there were still some things that needed work as a second release candidate, Firefox 3.6 RC 2, is now pushed for testing. This may ...

18 January 2010
07:20 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Brings Improved JavaScript Performance Especially for Add-Ons

JavaScript performance has become the megahertz war of web browsers and each vendor is trying to one up the other in this area. This can be largely attributed to Google's quest for improved web app performance, which it pursued with its own Chrome web browser. When Google Chrome came out, it left all other brow...

14 January 2010
09:53 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Final Available for Download on January 19 or January 26 2010

Mozilla is currently in the last stage of product development for the next iteration of its open source browser. Fact is that the wait for the successor of Firefox 3.5, released in mid-2009, is almost over. In this regard, the final version of Firefox 3.6 could be made available for download for the general public ei...

14 January 2010
07:56 GMT

The Firefox 4.0 GUI Already Available

Mozilla is currently hard at work, in the final stages of the development process for Firefox 3.6, but users that have followed plans for future releases of the open source browser already know that a major graphical user interface overhaul is in the books for Firefox 4.0. Granted, Firefox 4.0 is even by the best est...

13 January 2010
11:35 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Final Coming Right Up

While the development of the next iteration of Firefox hasn’t really dragged for too long, with the previous version released in mid-2009, fact is that the initial availability deadline was missed by a couple of months. Still, the wait is nearly over, and the final development milestone of Firefox 3.6, codename...

11 January 2010
11:08 GMT

Firefox 3.6 RC1 Comes with a Solid List of New Features

Mozilla finally got around to launching the release candidate version of the latest Firefox 3.6. The first big update after 3.5 was scheduled to be released in Q4 2009 but, as usually the case at Mozilla, it got pushed back and looks set to be coming sometime this month. In theory, the RC1 version could be identical...

11 January 2010
04:25 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 RC1 (Release Candidate)

The fully-fledged Release Candidate Build of Firefox 3.6 is now available for download. Users keeping a close eye on Softpedia have already been able to download a preview version of the RC1 development milestone since January 6th, 2010. After it offered the candidates (nightly testing versions) of Firefox 3.6 RC1, M...

8 January 2010
02:39 GMT

Firefox 3.6 RC1 Available for Download Tomorrow

UPDATE: Firefox 3.6 RC1 is now available for download.The first Release Candidate Build of Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, is just around the corner, literally. If all goes according to plans, Mozilla will make available for download the fully-fledged Firefox 3.6 RC 1 tomorrow, January 8th, 2010. On a delivery meeti...

7 January 2010
13:11 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate (RC) Build 1

Hot on the heels of the Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17 security and stability updates, Mozilla made available for download the first taste of Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate. As of today, January 6th, 2010 Firefox 3.6 RC Build 1 is live and up for grabs via the company’s FTP servers. Users should however be awa...

6 January 2010
03:04 GMT

Firefox 3.6, 3.7 and 4.0 in 2010

An interesting year awaits Mozilla, with the company’s plans for the evolution of its open source browser beginning to take contour. If until recently it appeared that two, maybe three releases of Firefox were planned for 2010, it now seems that Mozilla has bumped this number to three or four, with the addition...

30 December 2009
19:51 GMT

Firefox Codenamed Lorentz Drops in March 2010

While the general availability of Firefox 3.6 slipped into 2010, Mozilla is already planning ahead for the evolution of the next iteration of its open source browser. Nothing is set in stone at this point in time, but Mozilla could start cooking Firefox codenamed Lorentz, aiming for a March 2010 release. And just as...

30 December 2009
03:24 GMT

Firefox 4.0 Beta in mid-2010, Final in Late 2010

If all goes according to plan, Mozilla might release no less than three versions of its open source browser in 2010, culminating with Firefox 4.0. The next major version of Firefox is scheduled for general availability by the end of 2010. Of course, this is nothing more than a preliminary estimate of the delivery de...

23 December 2009
16:51 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Final Downloads in 2010

It’s now official, the final release of Firefox 3.6, the next iteration of the open source browser from Mozilla has slipped into the coming year. Users that have so far been holding their breaths for the delivery of Firefox 3.6, codename Namoroka, might as well exhale now, as they will need to exercise their pa...

21 December 2009
10:59 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 5

The fifth Beta Build of Firefox 3.6, codename Namoroka, is now available for download. Mozilla is referring to the development milestone as revision 5 of the first, and only (at least in the company’s perspective) Beta release of Firefox 3.6. Earlier this month, Softpedia informed you that yet another Beta of ...

18 December 2009
09:05 GMT

Download Firefox 3.5.6 and Firefox 3.0.16

Mozilla had noted previously that it would deliver updates to its fully supported versions of the open source browser by the end of this year, and it managed to live up to its promise. Today, December 15th, Firefox 3.5.6 and Firefox 3.0.16 became available for download. Mozilla has yet to officially announce the avai...

15 December 2009
11:35 GMT

Multiple File Handling and Drag and Drop Become a Reality in Firefox 3.6

One of the more interesting new features to make its way into the upcoming Firefox 3.6 is support for the latest W3C File API for HTML and also for the Drag and Drop API from the proposed HTML 5 standard. With these two APIs web developers can create powerful app for file management without resorting to proprietary ...

15 December 2009
06:48 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 Coming Right Up

Mozilla is getting ready to release a new development milestone of Firefox 3.6. And it appears that the upcoming testing build won’t graduate the next version of the open source browser to Release Candidate stage. According to Mozilla, a new Beta release, the fifth one, is currently cooking and being readied fo...

7 December 2009
15:01 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Is Here, Onward to Release Candidate (RC)

With the latest development milestone of Firefox 3.6 available for download and served to all currently Beta program participants, Mozilla should now be on track to graduate the browser to the next testing Build, namely Release Candidate. Hitting RC would mean that Firefox 3.6 is in near final form, and in fact only ...

27 November 2009
14:11 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Introduces Local File Handling

The latest beta version of Mozilla's extremely popular browser Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 was recently pushed to testers and eager users worldwide. It's mostly a bug fixing release, unsurprising at this stage in the development process when the focus is on rounding out the rough edges. Still, there are a couple of...

27 November 2009
07:01 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Available for Download

The forth Beta development milestone for the next iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser is currently available for download. Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 was already offered to heavyweight testers as a nightly, preview build via the browser maker’s FTP servers, and was followed shortly by the fully-fledged Bet...

26 November 2009
02:23 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Coming to Half a Million v3.6 Beta Testers

Get ready for a new development milestone of Mozilla’s next iteration open source browser ahead of the Release Candidate Build. Although it was initially planning to make available a single Beta on the way to RC, Mozilla is now preparing to offer early adopters of Firefox 3.6 the forth Beta release. In this co...

25 November 2009
04:56 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 for Mac OS Now Available for Download

Mozilla has just come to the display with yet another beta flavor of Firefox 3.6. The new variant, revision 3, comes as a rather stable release of the web browser, yet there are still some features that are expected to be changed with the final release of Firefox 3.6. However, users should know that installing the n...

19 November 2009
03:31 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 3

A new development milestone of Firefox 3.6 is now available for download as the open source browser makes its way toward the Release Candidate Build, expected to drop later this month. Yesterday, you were able to read right here on Softpedia that the third revision to the Firefox 3.6 Beta was in the final stages of ...

18 November 2009
11:19 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 (Revision 3) Is Cooking

Mozilla is cooking a new Beta Build of the next iteration of its open source browser. Early adopters will have a fresh revision, the third one since Firefox 3.6 debuted into Beta stage, available for download soon. Whether referred to as Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 or Firefox 3.6 Beta revision 3, the new release is just aroun...

17 November 2009
12:41 GMT

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta Refresh

At the start of this week, early adopters of the next iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser have been able to download pre-release variants of an update to the first Beta build of codename Namoroka since the start of this week. Labeled 3.6b2-candidates, the refresh to Firefox 3.6 Beta went live on Monday O...

11 November 2009
03:10 GMT


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