It’s here, Firefox 3 is finally here. The best web browser to date. Check out the improved features.
Do your part, help Mozilla set a new Guinness record for Firefox. The current mark stands at 2,516,722 downloads and growing.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 is out. This should be the final release for Firefox 3 before it goes public soon.
Take it for a spin while reading the release notes.
Also, Firefox is out to set a new Guinness world record by setting a new record for most downloaded software in 24 hours. If you want to be part of it, pledge yourself to the cause.
Since Firefox 3 has not official release date, make sure to keep up to date with the Firefox 3 Download Day 2008.
The first release candidate Firefox 3 is out. It’s mainly targeted at developers, bug testers and superusers.
Installed it yesterday and only managed to get 3 of my add-ons working but the performance improvement on the other hand was noticeable as promised.
Firefox 2.0.0.13 has just been released. It fixes a few security issues.
XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect 2008-17
Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.13)
JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution
If the auto update does not work for you, download the latest Firefox.
Source: Mozilla | Mozilla Security Advisories
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena.
As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. Currently Firefox 3 has managed to beat Firefox 2 and IE7 by working around the 100MB mark after loading and unloading 30 random web pages. The graph below will speak for itself, at peak (30 pages) IE7 was consuming around 500MB while Firefox 2 hovered around 280MB and Firefox 3 steadily working around 200MB. 
IE8 is said to attention the memory issue but till then it’s looks like the road is clear for Firefox 3.
If you are interested in running the benchmark, there’s a python script which will load open and load 30 random pages for you. Run the benchmark here or download the script.
Source: Paulou.net [ Stuart Parmenter (Mozilla Developer) ]
