Still under intensive polishing, the Firefox 3 themes now have names: Tango, Strata and Firelight, for the Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, respectively.
Tango, is named directly after the Tango Desktop Project which provides visual guidelines for Gnome and KDE Linux desktop environments. The new theme is in large part an effort of Michael Ventnor. Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox 3 Beta 5, Gran Paradiso’s milestone #13 is here and the list of features and improvement it brings along is pretty long so let’s get started.
Oh, for those following Firefox 3 development you may want to jump to the sections marked in green for what’s new in Beta 5.
Out of 1,942 designs submitted to the Firefox 3 T-shirt design contest Flickr pool, five finalists were selected to be voted by the public. One week later, the winner is here: Read the rest of this entry »
Last.fm has partnered with Mozilla Labs to add a new music category to the Extend Firefox 3 add-ons development contest started a couple of weeks ago.
Yesterday, Mozilla hosted a blogger luncheon where a few bloggers from main media outlets were invited to introduce them to and discuss the upcoming Firefox 3.
Five finalists have been selected from more than 2000 entries for the Firefox 3 T-shirt design contest. Only one of my favorite designs was selected and I still believe some of them were better executed than some of the finalists while delivering similar messages, but a design contest is as subjective as it gets so no big surprise here.
Following the Extend Firefox 2 contest that ended a couple of months ago, Mozilla Labs has announced Extend Firefox 3, a competition for developers to create or update their Firefox extensions that use some of the new Firefox 3 capabilities.
The entry period for the Firefox 3 T-shirt contest is coming to an end (March 16, 11:59pm EST to be precise). If you want to enter do it now.
There are more than 1400 entries so far and lots of very nice ones. These are some of my favorites. Read the rest of this entry »
For those who have already noticed Firefox 3’s memory usage improvements and wonder how they did it while adding a wealth of new features, Mozilla’s Stuart Parmenter has posted an excellent write up about what has been done so far to improve Firefox 3 memory management.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3 Beta 4 in more than forty languages for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Beta 4 feels rock solid but remember that it is a development version and things may go wrong. You may want to backup your profile just in case things may go wrong.
Make sure to read the complete Firefox 3 Beta 4 review to learn what’s new and how to get the best out of its new features.
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