Daily Archives: April 14, 2026

Firefox 5.0 Aurora (Alpha 2) Released
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Posted on April 14, 2026 by

Mozilla has released the first Aurora build of Firefox 5, Alpha 2 on April 12th. Firefox 5 is the first release being done under Mozilla’s new aggressive development plan. Here is how the plan works, there are 4 stages or … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, General Mozilla, Releases, Site News | 3 Comments

A Quick Glance at Firefox in 2011
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Posted on April 14, 2026 by

So back in February I posted about Mozilla’s new release schedule for Firefox in 2011. At that time the actual schedule hadn’t been fully drawn up yet as they were waiting on the release of Firefox 4. Now, I did … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 Code Names
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Posted on April 14, 2026 by

Mozilla has a code name for each of the major Firefox builds usually named after national parks. Firefox 3.6 was Namoroka (National Park in Madagascar) while Firefox 4.0 is Tumucumaque (National Park in Brazil). Starting with Firefox 4, each release … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 RSS Feeds
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Posted on April 14, 2026 by

I don’t think I mentioned this change before. In Firefox 4, the orange RSS feed icon that used to appear in the address bar for sites that had feed has been removed. In its place, is a new ‘Subscribe’ toolbar … Continue reading →

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Forcing Addons in Nightly 6.0a1
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Posted on April 14, 2026 by

Okay, Mozilla is doing some funky things right now with the new update process. For those of you still on the Nightly (your Firefox button will now show Nightly instead of Minefield) builds, you likely noticed you just got bumped … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 3.7, Fx 4.0, Fx 4.2, Fx 6.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 5 Comments