All you have to do to prove your Security Ninja status on Facebook is take the Mozilla Security Quiz and make a perfect score. With only five questions it may not seem that hard, but it really makes you and most likely your friends and relatives, think about what you’re doing online.
Take it and share it. It’s good. It’s short. It’s Facebook entertaining stuff.
Continuing with its new quick beta turnaround strategy, Mozilla has released a third beta just a week after Beta 2
Nothing too dramatic among the 90+ bug fixes this release introduces, but a few worth noting:
What’s next? Current Firefox 3.6 nightly builds are labeled as preb4, which could mean a fourth beta is planned. There are still a few nasty crasher bugs among the current blockers after all. This would push a release candidate into December and Firefox 3.6 final may become the preferred Christmas gift this season!
For the complete review of Firefox 3.6, check my beta 1 review.
In Firefox, you have to drive your eyes to the status bar while hovering a link to know where it will take you. Not anymore with URL Tooltip, a Firefox extension developed by Tim Tate, that shows the target URL as a tooltip, along with the title attribute (if present) defined by the content author.
Pretty simple and pretty useful as it helps to get rid of the status bar and gain a few extra screen lines.
Get URL Tooltip from Mozilla Add-ons.
Just a week after the first Firefox 3.6 beta release, Mozilla has made a available a new development release for enthusiasts who want to try the next Firefox today.
Beta 2, available as both an update for Beta 1 and a full download, patches more than 190 bugs, making it a compelling update for those comfortable running betas, and a safer bet for those who daring to wet their toes in software testing.
Among the many stability bug fixes, there’s a new mechanism that will allow Mozilla to block known-bad DLLs on Windows platforms to prevent software crashes and other potentially harming access.
Tab network prioritization, a new feature that will make foreground pages load faster than those in the background has recently landed to Firefox 3.6 nightlies but is missing in the beta (frozen a few days ago).
Nightlies are currently labeled as b3pre, suggesting a third beta is planned. The Release Candidate is already targeted for November 26 according to the latest meeting notes, so we can expect another quik turnaround for Beta 3.
Just a few things to say:
Thanks to all who make Firefox possible, and show how a different -open- way of thinking and acting can also lead to success.
Thanks to twitter and its 140 character limit, we now suddenly have to care about web addresses (URLs) length. Yeah, whatever. Except that you never really know where that shortened URL will take you and it could easily be just bait to increase someone’s page hits count.
Fear no more thanks to Long URL Mobile Expander, a Firefox extension created by Sean Murphy, that reveals the true destination of obfuscated URLs using the LongURL web service that covers more than 200 URL shortening services.
Mozilla has relased a quick Firefox update to address several stability bugs that may lead to crashing in very specific cases like sites that use a GIF image as their favicon.
Users are encouraged to update as soon as possible by selecting Check for Updates… in the Help menu. Otherwise, you should be prompted for the update in the next few hours.
You can check the release notes for more details.
If you already know that Firefox 3.7 and beyond will feature page loading progress bars in the tabs themselves (making you a true Firefox fan), you may also want to know there is an extension that lets you try this feature about a year before it becomes generally available.
Tab Progress Bar, developed by Frank Yan, adds just this feature which I found so far to be more informational than the old common progress bar in the status area.
Get Tab Progress Bar from Mozilla Add-ons.
It may suggest that being Mitchell Baker the head of Mozilla, there is no gender distribution issues within the open source community and Mozilla in particular.
It’s not the case however. Delphine Lebédel, a French Mozilla intern, explains: “The numbers I found astounded me: only 2% of women work in FLOSS communities, against more than 25% in proprietary software. In the development field, numbers are even lower: the percentage of Open Source women developers falls down to almost 1% (European Commission FLOSSPOL 2002-2005)”
Following previous Firefox theme updates for Windows and Mac OS X platforms, here is the mockup for Linux platforms, in this case the Ubuntu distribution.
As with other platforms, the update is planned in a two phase approach.
For Firefox 3.7, plans include combining the stop and reload buttons as their function is mutually exclusive; move the home button to the tab bar, and add a progress bar to each tab instead of the throbber currently features in all platforms. Unlike Windows, however, the menu bar is kept still. Also from other platforms, the keyhole shape for the back and forward icons is in. For cleaner looks, the toolbar separator are also gone.
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