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Firefox Friday Five

It's Friday AGAIN! Amazing how, like clockwork, Friday continues to occur every seven days. Incidentally, while on the topic of the day/night cycle, what part of the Earth is shown in the Firefox logo to the right? I presume that little lump is meant to be the United Kingdom, but the rest... I don't know! News from Mozilla and Firefox has actually been pretty slow this week, probably because ...

Firefox 3.7 dropped from Mozilla's development plan

Mozilla has changed their entire strategy on how they will be developing their Firefox browser. There are plans to drop Firefox 3.7 from the schedule and the hope is to release "incremental updates throughout the year", the company says. This move marks a major change in the way that Mozilla operates. Instead of adding features to the popular web browser at a few select times over the year, ...

Mozilla taps Google Chrome source code to bring multi-process plugins to Firefox

Mozilla has been working on bringing multi-process plugins to Firefox for quite some time, and in the latest nightly trunk build it's finally arrived. Yes, the same superpower which prevents Google Chrome from tanking entirely when a single plugin bites the dust are now built in to Firefox's core as well. In fact, it's built in using some of the open source Chromium code. The feature is ...

Soon each Firefox tab will be treated as a separate process

One of the coolest features in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 is the way the web browsers treats each open tab or window as a separate process. That means if one tab crashes, the browser won't necessarily close. Plugins like Adobe Flash can also fail without crashing the browser. Mozilla is working on bringing a similar feature to Firefox. It's not ready for prime time yet, and it won't ...