Rather than trying to create a carbon copy of the Firefox browser on the iPhone and really hope it gets accepted in the App Store, (being third-party browser that isn’t based on Apple’s Webkit browser platform), Mozilla is building an application for the iPhone, based on Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology.
Firefox Home, the new app, will give iPhone users access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. Firefox Home also incorporates Firefox’s “Awesome Bar” and its capability to remember your previous and automatically saved searches. More
Mozilla has released a security and stability update to Firefox 3.6.x. Firefox 3.6.4 build 5 fixes 46 bugs (5 are considered critical) in Firefox 3.6.4 build 4 and previous versions of the 3.6.x brand. The update package is available via Firefox’s update manager – you can also download FF 3.6.4 build 5 directly from Mozilla’s all-beta web page atop your Mac, Linux and Windows computers. “Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.”
The developers of lightweight open source PDF reader Sumatra have released version 1.1.0. Sumatra PDF a tiny, quick loading PDF viewer, that can be downloaded as a single executable file for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000 operating systems – its portable out of the box, a great alternative to the rather heavy resource consuming Adobe Reader. More
“The new Ubuntu and Canonical sites went live today! We hope you like them. As well as the visual refresh to include the new brand, the objective was to bring the sites up-to-date and provide a framework for them to evolve. This is the first step in the life of the new sites… we have many grand plans and we hope you will help us execute them!” – the rest of this article at Canonical Design.
Latest Firefox Mobile nightly builds, pushed out today for testing have enabled the Mozilla Crash Reporter provided by Breakpad. Breakpad crash reporting tool (developed by Google engineers) together with Socorro (a server to accept and process Breakpad crash reports) offer a common crash reporting system for Firefox 3, Thunderbird 3, SeaMonkey 2 and now Firefox Mobile “Fennec” for Nokia N900. More
