Firefox 10 Releases Today, Fixes Add-On Compatibility Issues

by Andrew Cunningham on 1/31/2012 12:40:00 PM
Posted in Firefox , Mozilla , Browsers

Firefox 10 is due to release today, continuing Mozilla's commitment to the six-week release cycle it switched to last year. As usual with these rapid-release browsers, Firefox 10 brings a couple of features you'll probably notice and a few more that you probably won't. The browser is available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7, Intel versions of Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7, and most flavors of Linux.

Firefox 10's banner feature is a tweak designed to fix add-on compatibility - most add-ons compatible with Firefox version 4 and later will now automatically be marked as compatible by the browser without any additional updates from the add-on's developer. This is true both of add-ons downloaded from Mozilla's repository, or add-ons installed from elsewhere on the Internet. This was done to ease the pain of upgrading for heavy add-on users, and to make way for Mozilla's silent Firefox updater, which is tentatively scheduled to land in June with the release of Firefox 13.

Mozilla has also hidden the browser's forward button unless it can actually be used, implemented anti-aliasing for WebGL, added support for CSS3 3D transforms, added full-screen APIs to allow for full-screen web apps (though still no official support for Lion's Full Screen mode), and a few other small feature and bug changes.

FF10 is also the first release of the browser to be offered as an "Extended Support Release" or ESR, which will be offered as a separate download - as we reported earlier this month, the ESRs will be good for a year, and will keep the same major version number and rendering engine while being kept current with security and bug fixes. The ESR is intended to replace Firefox 3.6, which has been patched continuously as Firefoxes 4 through 9 have been end-of-lifed, and is meant to placate enterprise administrators and others upset by the new rapid release cycle. Firefox 3.6 is tentatively scheduled to be discontinued on April 24, so if you've stuck by it for the last year you should begin testing the new version soon.

Source: Mozilla

Print This Article 24 Comments View All Comments Post a Comment fonts? by zinfamous on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 well, I hope it fixes my fonts that were completely broken with the auto-update of FF 9, several weeks back (I'm always slow to update). No fix available in FF< and no google-able solution that fixed my problem (all font issues seemed to be FF 3.x related).

My solution: switched to Chrome. zinfamous Reply RE: fonts? by Obsoleet on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 I'm sorry. Obsoleet Reply Burnout by ViRGE on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Oh God, not again! It seems like I just updated. ViRGE Reply deja vu by ryedizzel on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 dont get me wrong i value active updates and improvements, but why the complete version changes every time? are the updates REALLY that radical? it feels like i was using v6 a couple months ago which seems no different than v10. it's sort of misleading. they should really append increments instead (ie 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 etc).... ryedizzel Reply RE: deja vu by Spivonious on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 I agree. They should just drop the version number altogether if it's going to be meaningless. Spivonious Reply RE: deja vu by Tegeril on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 They're just doing what Google does with Chrome, and by Firefox 13 you wont know it's happening anymore. Tegeril Reply RE: deja vu by Aloonatic on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 But Chrome is on version 16, so how will Firefox catch them up and prove that they are better than them by having a higher version number if they get rid of version numbers all together?

Everyone knows that the higher the version number the better the browser. Aloonatic Reply RE: deja vu by dcollins on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 They're just numbers, why do people care so much? The whole point of the new release schedule is to get rid of the notion of "major" versus "minor" releases. The shorter, more predictable release cycle helps the developers deliver a higher quality product because they don't have to rush feature development to hit an arbitrary deadline for a "major" release.

Your expectations of version numbers simply need to change with the times because this style of development is proving superior both for consumers and developers. dcollins Reply RE: deja vu by inighthawki on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 It used to be a much bigger problem before this release since every major version change breaks addons unless they get updated. This was a huge issue when Mozilla decided that major version numbers would change, despite very little changes, which means small or otherwise unsupported addons would break every few weeks with a new update. inighthawki Reply RE: deja vu by bun77 on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 Actually each update so far has had huge changes.
Memory usage got cut by like 300%
browser speed has doubled in many areas
and so on

unless for you major version number change means UI change, which would be odd.

Since FF4, FF has actually gotten very good, and that in 6 month time!
With the old schedule you'd still be waiting FF5, and you'd probably get only half the features. bun77 Reply Subject Comment Post Comment Please login or register to post a comment.
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A. This is a hardware fault with your MacBook's AirPort card or the antenna. The AirPort icon still reports a good signal because it is measuring the signal received from the router and the problem doesn't affect the receiver. But the transmitter's signal isn't strong enough to reach the router unless the range is virtually zero. It's time to get the AirPort card replaced – you can do so at an authorised Mac service centre.

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