Mozilla ha rilasciato la versione 10.0.2 del suo browser web Firefox. Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina

Changelog:

• FIXED: Security fixes
• FIXED: Java applets sometimes caused text input to become unresponsive
• NEW: Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default
• NEW: The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back
• NEW: Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented
• NEW: CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported
• HTML5: New element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties
• HTML5: Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen
• DEVELOPER: We've added IndexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification
• DEVELOPER: Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector
• FIXED: Some users may experience a crash when moving bookmarks
• FIXED:Silverlight video may not play on some Macintosh hardware

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Mozilla procede sulla strada che porterà al rilascio della versione finale di Firefox 5 il prossimo 21 giugno rilasciando la seconda beta

The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:

• Added support for  CSS animations
• Added support for  switching Firefox development channels
• The  Do-Not-Track  header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
• Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
• Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
• Improved spell checking for some locales
• Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users

Le note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina, il download è possibile da questa pagina.

Mozilla ha rilasciato la nuova versione del suo browser Firefox 4 per Android e Maemo.  Firefox per dispositivi mobili è offerto in oltre 10 lingue, il download per dispositivi Android è possibile su Android market, per Maemo è possibile a questa pagina.

Firefox is up to three times faster than the stock browser on Android. Major enhancements to the JavaScript engine make everything from page load speed to graphics to overall performance snappy in Firefox.

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What’s New in Firefox for Android and Maemo:

Streamlined Interface

• Focus on Web content: Features like tabs, one-touch bookmarking and browser controls that stow away when not in use help users focus on the websites they visit

Browse More, Type Less

• Awesome Screen: Type less with easy access to history, bookmarks and open tabs
• Save to PDF: Capture important websites, like directions or a boarding pass, to view offline
• Share Page: Share websites via apps like email, Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and more
• Add Search Engine: Customize your search engine list

Private and Secure Synchronization

• Firefox Sync: Access Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices with secure end-to-end encryption

Most Customizable:

• Firefox offers thousands of ways for users to customize the features, functionality and look of their mobile Web browser with Firefox Add-ons

Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:

• Firefox improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages
• HTML5 support in Firefox for Android and Maemo includes Location-Aware Browsing, device orientation, accelerometer, desktop notifications and more
• The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games

Hewlett-Packard ha rilasciato il SDK (software Development Kit) per webOS 2.1, sistema operativo per dispositivi mobili. È possibile effettuare il download del SDK da questa pagina, le note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina.

New webOS Features & APIs

• Just Type. Integrate into the webOS Just Type interface, enabling users search within your app or use your app to perform quick actions.
• Exhibition. Implement support for Exhibition to inform, entertain and delight your users when their devices are docked on the Touchstone charger.
• JavaScript Services with Node.js. Write background services in JavaScript. Services run in the popular Node.js runtime environment, which is built into webOS 2.
• Synergy APIs. Integrate deeply into the webOS user experience by developing Synergy connectors for Contacts, Calendar or Messaging.
• HTML5 Enhancements. CSS gradients, enhanced Canvas support, Web Storage and more. Web sites can also take advantage of HTML5 Geolocation and Application Cache.
• Key Manager. Utilize new key management and cryptographic functionality.
• Media Capture. New APIs for capturing photos, videos and audio recordings.
• Bluetooth SPP. Implement wireless data transfer to and from Bluetooth-enabled devices, using the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP).
• Zeroconf (Bonjour). Discover devices on a local network.
• Media Indexer. Access the index of audio and video files stored on the device.

 

Mozilla ha annunciato il rilascio di Firefox 4, la versione finale arriva dopo il rilascio di 12 versioni beta e due release candidate.

Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.

Secondo Mozilla la versione 4 è la versione più veloce di Firefox, Firefox 4 è da due a sei volte più veloce di Firefox 3.
Firefox 4 è dotato anche di un nuovo add-ons manager, supporto per HTML5, App Tabs. Il motore JavaScript incorpora il nuovo compilatore JägerMonkey JIT. Con Firefox 4 un eventuale problema con Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime o Silverlight di Microsoft non causerà il blocco del browser. Se uno di questi plugin si dovesse bloccare non influenzerebbe il resto di Firefox, sarà sufficiente ricaricare la pagina per riavviare il plugin.
Firefox 4 è disponibile in oltre 80 lingue per sistemi Windows, Linux, Max OS X. Il download è possibile da questa pagina.

What’s New in Firefox 4:

Fastest Firefox Ever

• Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich, interactive websites.

Streamlined Interface

• App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.
• Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.
• Panorama: drag and drop tabs into manageable groups to save time while navigating many open tabs.

Private and Secure Synchronization

• Firefox Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.

Most Customizable

• New Add-ons Manager: easily discover and install more than 200,000 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of Firefox.

Private and Secure

• Do Not Track: Firefox is leading the Web towards a universal standard Do Not Track feature that allows users to opt-out of tracking used for behavioral advertising.
• Firefox puts privacy first, fixing flaws in some Web standards to prevent others from accessing your browser history.
• HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure connections to stop "man in the middle" attacks and keep sensitive data safe from interception during the log-in process.
• Content Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.

Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:

• The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games.
• HTML5 support in Firefox includes hardware accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more.
• Firefox 4 also improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages.
• Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Simply reload the page to restart the plugin.

Opera ha rilasciato la nuova versione del suo browser per dispositivi mobili Opera Mobile 11 per sistemi Android e Symbian.

Big day at the Opera! We are launching Opera Mobile 11 for Android and Symbian/S60. Download now direct to your device from  m.opera.com, or get it in the Android Market.

Features

• Modernized new user interface
• New UI optimized for tablet devices
• Faster framerates when panning and zooming
• No checkerboard, ever
• Text stays sharp during zooming
• Improved text-wrap on zoom
• Smart-tap, auto-zoom and highlights links if ambiguous link click
• Incremental zooming for devices w/o multi-touch
• Buttons for jumping to the top/bottom of the page
• Haptic feedback (if supported in hardware)
• Share URL on social networks, email etc
• Improved Geolocation support
• Session restore

Rendering

• Presto 2.7.81
• JIT for greatly improved Javascript performance (was supported in 10.1 on some Symbian devices)
• Adobe Flash support (Android only, Flash player available separately in Android Market)
• Click-to-play, load Flash content on demand only
• Application Cache
• WebStorage and WebDatabase
• DOM touch and multi-touch events
• HTML5 Audio/Video
• Support for CSS @viewport
• Improved support for meta viewport
• Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
• Support for Arabic ligatures
• Improved form fields skin

Annunciato il rilascio di Drupal 6.20, CMS open source. Questa release è una release di manutenzione, che risolve alcuni problemi segnalati attraverso il sistema di bug tracking.

Highlights of changes in this release include settings form inheritance for subthemes, syslog identity configuration support, better update support from Drupal 5, support for the tel: protocol, several fixes to the node translation system, fixes for CSS aggregation with non UTF-8 characters, support for specifying database collation, more complete coverage of HTML entities in entity decoding and various documentation fixes and other smaller bugfixes.

L'elenco completo dei cambiamenti dalla versione 6.19 a questa versione 6.20 è disponibile a questa pagina.
Da segnalare che a partire dalla data di rilascio di Drupal 7 la vecchia versione Drupal 5 non verrà più supportata.
Il download è possibile da questa pagina o direttamente da questo link drupal-6.20.tar.gz.