Windows XP users are advised to update to the latest service pack, and Windows 2000 users should consider upgrading ahead of the June release of Firefox 13. New search engine from Waterfox founder aims to take a punch at Google / The Telegraph. We never change minimum requirements lightly, but this support change allows us to significantly improve Firefox performance on Windows by using a more modern build system. The young developer behind web browser Waterfox, which boasts 4m downloads, is now hoping to create a viable rival to Google’s ubiquitous search engine by offering users absolute privacy online. Among its main features are the option of being able to browse several websites at the same. In Linux I also had to update (in some distros replace manually) the file libpng12.so.0 (libpng12.so.0.44. We’d also like to take this opportunity to announce that our minimum supported Windows version will change from Windows 2000 to Windows XP SP2 in Firefox 13. Mozilla continues working on more improvements for its star product: the free and open source browser, Firefox. By the way : in my variation based on Firefox 3.6.28 the file replacement is not necessary, because the updated imglib2.dll is already included in the big xul.dll from Firefox, and not anymore in the folder components. Enterprises and organizations should complete qualification and deployment of the ESR over the next month. In support of Firefox 3.6 users in organizations, we’ve delivered on our promise to implement the Extended Support Release plan three months ahead of ending support for Firefox 3.6. Weve been making software portable since March 2004. We strongly advise our users to upgrade from Firefox 3.6, as they will no longer receive critical security updates as of April 24th. Haller, whose Portable Firefox started the portable software trend. Barring any major stability or security issues found over the next few weeks, Firefox 3.6.28 will be our last 3.6 release. In the years since Firefox 3.6, we’ve make incredible improvements to Firefox, including phenomenal HTML5 capabilities, Firefox Sync, faster JavaScript performance, support for the Do Not Track header, and an easier, quieter update process.
It uses the Gecko 1.9.2 engine (compared to 1.9.1 in Fx 3.5), which improves compliance with web standards.It was codenamed Namoroka. The releases main improvement over Firefox 3.5 is improved performance (due to further speed improvements in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine).
Firefox 3.6.28 is the last version of Firefox that works with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on a computer. Mozilla Firefox 3.6 is a version of the Firefox web browser released in January 2010.
After two years of regular updates, we’ll end our support for Firefox 3.6 on April 24th. Mozilla Firefox for Mac is a versatile and feature-packed browser with advanced security features that can hide shared user activity and has customizable privacy.