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[News] Firefox Loses the EULA and Earns Raves

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Kiss Firefox EULA goodbye

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| When Mozilla requested Ubuntu to show Firefox’s End User License Agreement on 
| Firefox first start, the Ubuntu and other free software advocacy communities 
| cried foul, because for some reason, stating the obvious (that Mozilla is not 
| liable for whatever happens to your computer and that the software is free) 
| is not in tune with the open source spirit.    
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/11/kiss-firefox-eula-goodbye/

The View From Firefox's Bleeding Edge

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| Why do all this? For one, it gives me an idea of what the quality of the 
| nightly builds are like for a given project, when such builds are available.  
| Firefox's nightlies are remarkably solid -- not one of them has burped on me 
| in the course of even remarkably heavy use, although I don't use the 
| nightlies for things like accessing my bank account.   
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/the_view_from_f.html


Recent:

Firefox 3.1 beta 1 released and reviewed

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| Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 Beta 1, the first official development
| release of the next update to Firefox 3 just about four months after its
| release past June.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/10/firefox-31-beta-1-released-and-reviewed/


Browser Review: Mozilla Firefox 3

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| By some estimates, more than 1.4 billion people use the Internet for work,
| entertainment, or commerce. All of those web surfers must use a browser to
| visit websites or shop at online stores, and if browsing speed, security, and
| functionality matter, those users should be cruising the information super
| highway with the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser.
|
| [...]
|
| Recommendation: Firefox is the Best Browser Available Today
|
| Firefox is fast, safe, and offers better functionality than the competition
| thanks to an impressive collection of add-ons and some cool built-ins. The
| browser is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, and it is
| free to everyone. Certainly there are tradeoffs, but compared to
| compatibility problems and graphics support issues in IE6 and IE7, Chrome’s
| spying, and Opera’s propensity to crash, Firefox is the best.
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http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/843-Browser-Review-Mozilla-Firefox-3


Overhauled tabbed browsing for Firefox 3.1

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| Firefox 3.1 may well be remembered as the “tab release”, as tabbed browsing
| will be the most noticeable updated area users will face when it comes out in
| final form.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/09/overhauled-tabbed-browsing-for-firefox-31/


Finer session restore for Firefox 3.1

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| Back from a totally offline, sweet 7-day cruise with great times at Aruba,
| Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Saint Thomas. Aruba and Curaçao: overrated. Sint
| Maarten: the winner hands down. If you can, jump on one now!
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/10/finer-session-restore-for-firefox-31/


Mozilla: Firefox is faster than Chrome

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| Mozilla answered claims that Google's Chrome browser outperforms Firefox with
| benchmark results of its own that showed the upcoming Firefox 3.1 is faster
| at executing JavaScript.
|
| According to tests run by Brendan Eich, Mozilla's chief technology officer
| and the creator of JavaScript, Firefox's new TraceMonkey interpreter is up to
| 28 percent faster than V8, the name Google gave to the interpreter used by
| Chrome.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1499123917&rid=-50


Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 reviewed

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| Mozilla has released the second alpha of Shiretoko, the development codename
| of Firefox 3.1. Alpha 2 brings a handful of improvements and new features
| that help advance the web to a more open, standards based stage, while
| tweaking the user experience.
|
| [...]
|
| TraceMonkey, the JavaScript optimization module that brings outstanding
| performance improvements to most web applications is disabled by default in
| this release because of some nasty bugs, but this should change soon.
|
| Also coming in future releases, most likely Beta 1, is geolocation support
| which was added some days ago, and will enable web developers to provide
| content customized to a user specific location.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/09/firefox-3-alpha-2-reviewed/
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