Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Firefox 9.0.1 released
I dropped by the Mozilla web site tonight. I discovered on their Firefox news page, that Firefox 9.0.1 has already been released.
I am pretty excited because this version dramatically speeds up some web pages which use JavaScript. I read elsewhere this evening that the developers used some clever optimization techniques to get the higher performance.
Apparently, MathML support has been improved too.
On a side note, this is my first post using the draft version of the new version of Google's Blogger service which will be getting an update soon.
It seems nice. This is certainly one of those changes that you notice. The post-a-blog-entry page is nothing like the old one they have had for years. Saying it is different is a radical understatement.
I am pretty excited because this version dramatically speeds up some web pages which use JavaScript. I read elsewhere this evening that the developers used some clever optimization techniques to get the higher performance.
Apparently, MathML support has been improved too.
On a side note, this is my first post using the draft version of the new version of Google's Blogger service which will be getting an update soon.
It seems nice. This is certainly one of those changes that you notice. The post-a-blog-entry page is nothing like the old one they have had for years. Saying it is different is a radical understatement.
Labels: blogging, browsing, firefox, software, update, web
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Firefox 3.6 is here!!
At last, Mozilla Firefox 3.6 has arrived. It got here a few weeks, well, exactly 3, after the end of 20009. Not bad though. The speed improvements from the newly improved JavaScript interpreter might make up for it.
Labels: browsing, firefox, update, web
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Update to Firefox 3.5.6!
There are issues fixed by updating to Firefox 3.5.6. It is very important at this time to keep Firefox up to date.
That goes for the Firefox application program itself, the extensions you have installed, and the plugins.
Unfortunately, Firefox lacks a built-in, automated way to check for out-of-date plugins and offer to update them for you.
However, there is at least a web page at the Mozilla web site that will do that for you. Using Firefox web browser, click the shiny bit of blog bling in the lower left corner of my weblog page here, so you can get that done.
That simply takes you to their web page. Their page does all the work. Just read it carefully. Make sure you bookmark their page, by the way. You will want to visit that web page regularly. I recommend doing it about once a week.
Updating Ad-ons in Firefox is easy. Just go to the Tools menu in Firefox, Choose Add-ons menu item, and click the Find Updates button at the bottom of the dialog box that appears. It will let you know if there are any updates that need to be applied and then display a Restart button if there are.
To update Firefox itself, you should go to its Help menu and choose the Check for Updates menu item.
If software developers at Mozilla update Firefox, but you never get those updates from them - then your computer just gets more and more at risk. Plus, you are not going to get improvements. The same goes for updating its third-party plugins and add-ons.
That goes for the Firefox application program itself, the extensions you have installed, and the plugins.
Unfortunately, Firefox lacks a built-in, automated way to check for out-of-date plugins and offer to update them for you.
However, there is at least a web page at the Mozilla web site that will do that for you. Using Firefox web browser, click the shiny bit of blog bling in the lower left corner of my weblog page here, so you can get that done.
That simply takes you to their web page. Their page does all the work. Just read it carefully. Make sure you bookmark their page, by the way. You will want to visit that web page regularly. I recommend doing it about once a week.
Updating Ad-ons in Firefox is easy. Just go to the Tools menu in Firefox, Choose Add-ons menu item, and click the Find Updates button at the bottom of the dialog box that appears. It will let you know if there are any updates that need to be applied and then display a Restart button if there are.
To update Firefox itself, you should go to its Help menu and choose the Check for Updates menu item.
If software developers at Mozilla update Firefox, but you never get those updates from them - then your computer just gets more and more at risk. Plus, you are not going to get improvements. The same goes for updating its third-party plugins and add-ons.
Labels: browsing, firefox, software, update, web
At least you can make Firefox safe: update plugins!
Firefox has a pretty cool web page. It came out this autumn and it tells you if Firefox has any out of date plugins. Plugins can do anything. Since flaws are constantly being discovered in plugins for every web browser, and updates keep coming out for them - you need to know when that happens and take measures to update them.
Firefox plugin check
Tell your Firefox-using friends about the page that points to so they can be safer too.
Hopefully, this feature will get built into the web browser in the future. It seems awkward to be passing around a crucial feature by its URL.
Firefox plugin check
Tell your Firefox-using friends about the page that points to so they can be safer too.
Hopefully, this feature will get built into the web browser in the future. It seems awkward to be passing around a crucial feature by its URL.
Labels: Firefox 3, software, update
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Firefox 2.0.0.2 has been released
A new version of Firefox (2.0.0.2) has been released to fix some problems and to help it work better with Microsoft Vista.
Labels: firefox, software, update, vista
Hopefully, someday I will get this page to validate!
