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Release: Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone

Fini Alring — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:16:07 +0000

Firefox 2 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the fourth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 2. Ongoing planning for Firefox 2 can be followed at the Firefox 2 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #bonecho.

Please note: It is not recommended that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only, normal users are encouraged to get the latest public release of Firefox.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

Built in Phishing Protection

Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com

Changes to tabbed browsing behavior

Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs

Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds

Inline spell checking in text boxes

Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines

New microsummaries feature for bookmarks

Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash

New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes

New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

Support for JavaScript 1.7

Support for client-side session and persistent storage

Extended search plugin format

Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions

Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone released

CSS3: Multi-column Demo for Firefox

Fini Alring — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:33:43 +0000

Since the beginning of web design, there has always been a need to make multi-columned text pages. Sadly HTML and CSS 1+2 has rather weak support for this kind of wrapping techniques. Many workarounds have been created for this using JavaScript and server side pages. But the draft specification of “CSS3 module: Multi-column layout” promises to solve this “column problem” by adding a set of CSS properties.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 beta adds preliminary support for these properties, so that developer can begin playing with it, not however that the reason the properties begin with “-moz-” is that the CSS3 Multi-column specification is still a draft, so therefore they should not be used for real web design yet, unless it can make a clean fallback when meeting non-mozilla 1.5+ clients.

I have created CSS3: Multi-column module demo for Firefox 1.5 beta – which shows some of the wonders of the new multi-column features, as well a some other CSS properties to create a nice flowing page with highly dynamic columns, and pretty stable compared to many of the older methods, but you need to use Mozilla Firefox 1.5 beta – which I would only recommend to Web Developers.

You can also check some screenshots of the demo, showing it’s ability to create as many columns as it can, while maintaining nice readability thru limited line-width.

Don’t believe the rumours, check the demo yourself here:

CSS3: Multi-column module demo for Firefox 1.5 beta

See more code samples at Mozilla Developer: CSS3 Columns.

A List Apart: Articles: Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module

Blog Searching with Google

Fini Alring — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:45:06 +0000

Google has released a beta edition of Google Blog Search. It is designed to index weblogs and related feeds. The advanced blog search is quite good and has special fields for blog title, post title and author name. Additionally you can limit by post date range as well as language.

Google has built it into blogger.com, so choose your favorite skin below.

Google Blog Search (beta)

Blogger Blog Search (beta)

Beta Release: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 B1

Fini Alring — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:51:35 +0000

mozillaZine: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download. Also known as the 1.8 Beta 4 milestone, this is the first beta release of the next major Firefox update and is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers. The final release of Firefox 1.5, which will be widely promoted to end-users, is scheduled for later this year.

Please note that this is NOT for normal users, it will replace the current Firefox and will disable most extensions. However for developers it’s great! Looking forward to doing more E4X stuff, as well as SVG demos!

Release Notes for Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released