Firefox 3.6.4 Release Candidate Available for Download and Testing

[lovinglinux]

Editor’s note: On May 28, Mozilla announced the release candidate build of the next version of Firefox, which will include the Crash Protection for “out of process plugins” feature to help create a smoother, faster and more secure browsing experience for users. Early testing shows that this feature may protect users from more than half of the browser crashes that are commonly reported to us.

See full article (http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/06/01/firefox-3-6-4-release-candidate-available-for-download-and-testing/)

If you want to test it without interfering with your default version and user profile, then use FoxTester (http://foxtester-extension.blogspot.com/) extension.

For more info on how to install other versions of Firefox see the Installing Other Versions (http://firefox-tutorials.blogspot.com/2010/05/installing-other-versions.html) section of Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193567).

[andrewabc]

Since ubuntu will be installing this version on all >=8.04 systems, I have a question.

Currently I am using mozilla stable ppa.
Should I disable it and let ubuntu default install 3.6.4 install? Having ppa 3.6.3 installed won't matter for 3.6.4 ubuntu install?

[pelle.k]

3.6.4 fixes a bug that has been around for ages with firefox on linux, the pointer does not show a "busy" cursor until it "times out" when loading firefox anymore.
Here's a reference from launchpad; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/firefox/+bug/469752

It will find it's way in to lucid, btw.

[lovinglinux]

3.6.4 fixes a bug that has been around for ages with firefox on linux, the pointer does not show a "busy" cursor until it "times out" when loading firefox anymore.
Here's a reference from launchpad; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/firefox/+bug/469752

It will find it's way in to lucid, btw.

Thanks for the info. The busy cursor bug was really annoying, although I have disable it entirely from KDE settings.

[chrisccoulson]

If you want to beta test Firefox updates, then you can use the Mozilla Security team PPA [1], which is where we host all the security updates for beta testing before they are copied in to the official archive. 3.6.4 for Lucid has been there for several weeks already, and we generally try to get all updates in there as early as possible

[1] - https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa

[chris200x9]

does it have webm support?

[lovinglinux]

does it have webm support?

Nope. That will come with Firefox 4.

[chris200x9]

Nope. That will come with Firefox 4.


boo :( oh well it's still sounds good :)

[lovinglinux]

boo :( oh well it's still sounds good :)

Mozilla is adding a lot of cool stuff to Firefox recently. Soon we will also see Firefox Sync (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868/) integrated with the browser.

[ElSlunko]

does it have webm support?

Here is the webM nightly build.

http://nightly.mozilla.org/webm/