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The Firefox 3.6 Beta saga goes on. Episode 4 a.k.a Firefox 3.6 beta 4 adds a 100+ fixes pack to previous Firefox 3.6 beta 3.
If you are using Firefox 3.6 beta 3 then Help -> Check for Updates and improve your browsing experience with a more stable and secured FF3.6b4. Web developers and Add-on developers have much to gain from this update.
– New in this version is the support for HTML 5 File API; “it’s now possible for web content to ask the user to select local files, then read the contents of those files. This selection can be done by either using an HTML input element, or by drag and drop.”
Help Mozilla make sure your favorite add-ons get updated for upcoming Firefox releases by using the Add-on Compatibility Reporter. Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4
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Windows, Mac, Linux: Firefox 3.6 beta 3 bundles up over 80 bug fixes from the last beta but at the same time it drops some of its marvels like tab preview.
It maintains others like alerting users about out-of-date plugins, and built in support for Personas. This is certainly the fastest of the 3 betas released so far, it is released in 60 different languages and will certainly undergo many more changes before the first release candidate.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 release notes
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For Windows, Mac and Linux: Mozilla made sync that comes in the form of an extension for Firefox and Fennec (Mozilla’s mobile version of Firefox) browsers is now close to version 1.0. Weave Sync add-on v1.0 tries to close the gab between it and more popular Xmarks by adding features already present in the latter. More»
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Firefox 3.6 beta 1 plus 190 bug fixes equals Firefox 3.6 beta 2.
You can download Firefox 3.6 beta 2 from the Mozilla website or update from Firefox 3.6 beta 1.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 ~ Release notes and Download
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If you love the Pin Tab feature in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers that crops tabs down to favicon-size, so you gain more tab bar space and would like to give it a try in Firefox, then grab the App Tabs Firefox extension. Pinning tabs doesn’t mean holding them down to a fix position, pinned-tabs can still be shuffled within the pinned tab area. More»
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