Firefox 3.6.3 fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 555109).

What’s New in Firefox 3.6.3

Mozilla has released Weave 1.2.1, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what.

So far, synchronization includes bookmarks, history, preferences, passwords, filled forms, and even your last 25 opened tabs. All the information is transported and stored in encrypted form at all times making it pretty safe to use.

Weave, in development for more than two years now, includes a client (the Weave Sync extension), and a server component (Weave Server) so companies could deploy their own synchronization servers.

A feature that is not present but was tried at some point in Weave development is automatic sign-on, but it could come back at some point.

Also, preferences finally ended in its own tab in the Options or Preferences dialog, after trying a page approach Mozilla is considering for the whole preferences user interface or add-on management at least (more on this in the next post).

Check out the release notes for more details. Download Weave Sync from Mozilla Add-ons.

Recent changes

• Fix issues with uploading stale data when upgrading
• Remember bookmark locations when moving out of unsorted
• Prevent certain tabs from syncing: restore session, wyciwyg:

More Information

• For more information on Weave Sync 1.0, please see the release notes
• For information about previous versions as well as the latest development snapshots, check out the changelog

Weave Sync Changelog

Here you can read about Weave add-on releases. For the full hg changelog, go here

Weave v1.1 (February 26, 2010)

• Fix issues with uploading stale data when upgrading
• Remember bookmark locations when moving out of unsorted
• Prevent certain tabs from syncing: restore session, wyciwyg:

Weave v1.0.1 (February 12, 2010)

• When syncing saved passwords we no longer allow Weave credentials in the set of data that is encrypted and synchronized with the server

Weave v1.0 (January 28, 2010)

• Fix threshold sync values so clients don’t sync too aggressively
• Updated web links and icons

For a limited time you can download this free E-Book First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 without stepping through any registration.

First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray, offers 14 chapters of early content, organized like so:

Part I, “Envision the Possibilities,” introduces you to the changes in Office 2010 and shows you how you can make the most of the new features to fit the way you work today. Chapter 1, “Welcome to Office 2010,” gives you a play-by-play introduction to new features; Chapter 2, “Express Yourself Effectively and Efficiently,” details the great feature enhancements and visual effects throughout the applications; and Chapter 3, “Work Anywhere with Office 2010,” explores the flexibility factor by presenting a set of scenarios that enable users to complete their work no matter where their path takes them.

Part II, “Hit the Ground Running,” focuses on each of the Office 2010 applications in turn, spotlighting the key new features and showing how they relate to the whole. These chapters provide a how-to guide for many of the top features you’re likely to use right off the bat, and they offer inspiring ideas on how to get the most from your favorite applications.

Part III, “Next Steps with Office 2010,” zooms up to the big picture and provides examples to help you think through interoperability. How often do you use the various Office applications together? Customer research shows that people often don’t realize how well the applications work together as a complete system—which means they might be laboring over items they could easily incorporate from somewhere else. This part of the book provides examples for integrating the applications and explores Office 2010 security and training opportunities, as well.

You can First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 Download here.

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Google Chrome Dev Channel has been updated to 5.0.342.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms

This release improves stability and fixes some known crashers (such as Issues: 37035, 37674, 37567)

• All: Form auto-fill is not enabled by default (Issue 37466) – Fixed on Trunk
• Windows: Browser crashes on quiting with Authentication dialog opened (Issue: 37698) – Fixed on Trunk
• Linux: Chromium Bookmark Sync Not Working (Issue: 36460)

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It’s official! In a blog post today, Arpan Shah officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010.

You’re invited to virtually join us on May 12th at 11am EST to listen to Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch.

You can register for the launch event at: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx.

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST. The live keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers:

• End user productivity across the PC, phone and browser
• IT choice and flexibility
• A platform for developers to build innovative solutions

Join the virtual launch event with Microsoft executives, product developers, partners and customers to:

• Find out how peers and partners are already seeing benefits to their business by leveraging the next wave of productivity.
• Submit your questions through live Q&A.
• Participate via blogs, tweets, social media networks, commenting, and more.

View on-demand breakout sessions showing how Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 meet the unique challenges people and businesses are faced with today, and provide the solutions they need for tomorrow.

Mozilla has released Weave 1.1, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what.

So far, synchronization includes bookmarks, history, preferences, passwords, filled forms, and even your last 25 opened tabs. All the information is transported and stored in encrypted form at all times making it pretty safe to use.

Weave, in development for more than two years now, includes a client (the Weave Sync extension), and a server component (Weave Server) so companies could deploy their own synchronization servers.

A feature that is not present but was tried at some point in Weave development is automatic sign-on, but it could come back at some point.

Also, preferences finally ended in its own tab in the Options or Preferences dialog, after trying a page approach Mozilla is considering for the whole preferences user interface or add-on management at least (more on this in the next post).

Check out the release notes for more details. Download Weave Sync from Mozilla Add-ons.

Recent changes

• Fix issues with uploading stale data when upgrading
• Remember bookmark locations when moving out of unsorted
• Prevent certain tabs from syncing: restore session, wyciwyg:

More Information

• For more information on Weave Sync 1.0, please see the release notes
• For information about previous versions as well as the latest development snapshots, check out the changelog

Weave Sync Changelog

Here you can read about Weave add-on releases. For the full hg changelog, go here

Weave v1.1 (February 26, 2010)

• Fix issues with uploading stale data when upgrading
• Remember bookmark locations when moving out of unsorted
• Prevent certain tabs from syncing: restore session, wyciwyg:

Weave v1.0.1 (February 12, 2010)

• When syncing saved passwords we no longer allow Weave credentials in the set of data that is encrypted and synchronized with the server

Weave v1.0 (January 28, 2010)

• Fix threshold sync values so clients don’t sync too aggressively
• Updated web links and icons

Mozilla has released Weave 1.0, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what.

So far, synchronization includes bookmarks, history, preferences, passwords, filled forms, and even your last 25 opened tabs. All the information is transported and stored in encrypted form at all times making it pretty safe to use.

Weave, in development for more than two years now, includes a client (the Weave Sync extension), and a server component (Weave Server) so companies could deploy their own synchronization servers.

A feature that is not present but was tried at some point in Weave development is automatic sign-on, but it could come back at some point.

Also, preferences finally ended in its own tab in the Options or Preferences dialog, after trying a page approach Mozilla is considering for the whole preferences user interface or add-on management at least (more on this in the next post).

With Weave 1.0 and Firefox 3.6 released, and Firefox for Maemo 1.0 debuting tomorrow, Mozilla is rounding a great 2010 start.

Check out the release notes for more details. Download Weave Sync from Mozilla Add-ons.

Here is the list of Changes since Beta 3:

• Fix threshold sync values so clients don’t sync too aggressively
• Updated web links and icons
• Preserve multiple bookmarks to the same page to avoid reordering issues
• Show that email addresses aren’t usernames
• Fix issues that potentially led to reordered bookmarks
• Avoid triggering master password prompt on launching Firefox
• Better integration with Fennec UX
• Smarter detection of tabs to sync
• Faster startup times for Firefox and Fennec
• Make tabs available immediately when setting up another computer
• Automatically use the synced lightweight theme (Firefox 3.6+)
• A few more bug fixes related to changing passwords, mobile bookmarks, etc

The iPad is a tablet computer announced by Apple on January 27, 2010. It is 0.5-inches thick, weighs 1.5 pounds, and features a 9.7-inch IPS capacitive multitouch display. It is powered by a proprietary 1GHz processor, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and is available in 16, 32, or 64GB flash storage capacities. Additional specs include an accelerometer, compass, speaker, mic, 30-pin Apple dock connector, and 10-hour built-in battery.

Standard apps that come pre-loaded on the device include a mobile Safari web browser, an e-book reader app called iBooks, a calendar app, two-pane email app, contacts, notes, Google Maps, media player, photo viewer, iTunes store, and App Store to download third-party applications and games. Existing iPhone applications are centered on-screen at their original 480×320 resolution, or can be run in a magnified mode where the app is enlarged to fit the entire screen.

Apple will offer models with built-in unlocked 3G data capabilities. US customers can purchase an AT&T 250MB data plan for $14.99 per month or an unlimited data plan for $29.99 per month.

Wi-Fi only iPad models will be available by the beginning of April 2010:
$499 – 16GB
$599 – 32GB
$699 – 64GB

Wi-Fi + 3G iPad models will be available by the beginning of May 2010:
$629 – 16GB
$729 – 32GB
$829 – 64GB

And here’s Apple’s full press release:

Apple iPad

A Magical & Revolutionary Device at an Unbelievable Price

Apple® today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch™ display lets users physically interact with applications and content. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds- thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad will be available in late March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

iPad features 12 next-generation Multi-Touch applications. Every app works in both portrait and landscape, automatically animating between views as the user rotates iPad in any direction. The precise Multi-Touch interface makes surfing the web on iPad an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer. Reading and sending email is fun and easy on iPad’s large screen and almost full-size “soft” keyboard. Import photos from a Mac®, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad’s elegant slideshows. Watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD or flip through pages of an e-book you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.

iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. The iTunes® Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers.

Apple also introduced a new version of iWork® for iPad, the first desktop-class productivity suite designed specifically for Multi-Touch. With Pages®, Keynote® and Numbers® you can create beautifully formatted documents, stunning presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with charts, functions and formulas. The three apps will be available separately through the App Store for $9.99 each.

iPad syncs with iTunes just like the iPhone and iPod touch, using the standard Apple 30-pin to USB cable, so you can sync all of your contacts, photos, music, movies, TV shows, applications and more from your Mac or PC. All the apps and content you download on iPad from the App Store, iTunes Store and iBookstore will be automatically synced to your iTunes library the next time you connect with your computer.

iPad’s brilliant 9.7-inch, LED-backlit display features IPS technology to deliver crisp, clear images and consistent color with an ultra-wide 178 degree viewing angle. The highly precise, capacitive Multi-Touch display is amazingly accurate and responsive whether scrolling web pages or playing games. The intelligent soft keyboard pioneered on iPhone takes advantage of iPad’s larger display to offer an almost full-size soft keyboard. iPad also connects to the new iPad Keyboard Dock with a full-size traditional keyboard.

iPad is powered by A4, Apple’s next-generation system-on-a-chip. Designed by Apple, the new A4 chip provides exceptional processor and graphics performance along with long battery life of up to 10 hours.* Apple’s advanced chemistry and Adaptive Charging technology deliver up to 1,000 charge cycles without a significant decrease in battery capacity over a typical five year lifespan.**

iPad comes in two versions-one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G. iPad includes the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi, and the 3G versions support speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on HSDPA networks. Apple and AT&T announced breakthrough 3G pre-paid data plans for iPad with easy, on-device activation and management.

Continuing Apple’s dedication to designing and creating environmentally responsible products, each iPad enclosure is made of highly recyclable aluminum and comes standard with energy-efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass. iPad contains no brominated flame retardants and is completely PVC-free.

Apple today released a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPad, so developers can create amazing new applications designed to take advantage of iPad’s capabilities. The SDK includes a simulator that lets developers test and debug their iPad apps on a Mac, and also lets developers create Universal Applications that run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Pricing & Availability

iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model. The Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April in the US and selected countries for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. International pricing and worldwide availability will be announced at a later date. iBookstore will be available in the US at launch.

NVIDIA has released the GeForce 300M Series Graphics Processors for Notebooks/Laptops.

NVIDIA® GeForce® 300M Series Notebook GPUs are ready for Microsoft® Windows 7®, provide great gaming with NVIDIA® PhysX® technology, able to run award-winning applications with NVIDIA® CUDA® technology.

Optimized for Windows 7 and ready to take advantage of the new GPU-accelerated capabilities and features.

• Experience GPU Powered drag-n-drop transcoding in Windows 7 as you automatically transfer video for viewing on your portable player

• Enjoy new GPU-accelerated video and image processing applications built with Microsoft’s new DirectCompute API

Equipped with the latest technologies including PhysX technology for ultra-realistic game environments and virtual worlds

• Darkest of Days looks and plays realistically, thanks to the inclusion of natural environments, complete with realistic leaves and flowers, wind, ground fog, smoke, volcanic ash, snow, and more

• Dark Void will have the distinction of being the first game ever to use dynamic, accurate smoke effects and smoke trails for the game’s innovative jetpacks, UFOs, and spaceships

CUDA technology accelerates the most demanding GPU-powered applications to run up to 20X faster than the CPU

• Easily edit HD movies with GPU-based applications like PowerDirector7 by CyberLink and Super LoiloScope from Loilo

• Automatically clean-up video from your camcorder or mobile phone with vReveal from MotionDSP

Performance when you need it (up to 2X faster than previous generation GPUs) for those intensive apps and greater battery life with 50% lower power consumption with for your everyday tasks

• Leading edge process technology, coupled with new GPU architecture, enables smaller size chips, lower idle power, and increased performance per watt

The new lineup includes the GeForce GTS 360M and GTS 350M in the “High Performance” category, the “Performance” GeForce GT 335M, GT 330M, and GT 325M, and the GeForce 310M and 305M “Mainstream” GPUs. Currently, there are no 300M Series models in NVIDIA’s “Enthusiast” and “Value” categories.

The 300M GPUs support GPU-accelerated video and image processing applications built with Microsoft’s new DirectCompute API, as well as older technologies such as DirectX 10, CUDA, PhysX, and PureVideo.

The GeForce GTS 360M and GTS 350M additionally support two-way SLI.

According to the GPU specifications, the most of the GeForce 300M chips have the same or similar 3D graphics performance as their 200M Series counterparts.

What’s New in Firefox 3.6

What makes the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processors so smart?

SMART TECHNOLOGY

Imagine having a processor smart enough to know when your PC needs a little more juice. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology gives you speed when you need it and delivers energy efficiency when you don’t.

Also available on select models of the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family, Intel® HD Graphics provides superb visual performance for sharper images, richer color, and life-like audio and video.

SMART SPEED

We’re all multitaskers. We edit photos, send email, watch video, sync our iPods*—and we want to do it all at once. Now we can. Intel® Hyper-threading Technology lets your processor work on two tasks at the same time.

SMART INVESTMENT

A new PC today opens more doors tomorrow. The all new Intel® Core™ processors adapt to your needs now and down the road. So you won’t just keep up. You’ll get ahead. 

  
 Intel® Core™ i7 processor Specifications

 Intel® Core™ i5 processor Specifications

 Intel® Core™ i3 processor Specifications

Intel® Core™ Processor Family feature details:

  Processor Number
Processor models vary according to clock frequency, supported memory frequency, cache size, and other supported features. Every year, software developers design programs and applications that demand and utilize more and more of these elements. When you’re shopping for a new computer, we recommend you think about tomorrow’s needs as well as today’s, and choose the best processor you can afford.

Cores/threads
Cores and threads go hand in hand. Multi-core processors are single chips that contain two or more distinct processors or execution cores in the same integrated circuit. Multi-threading allows each core to work on two tasks at once, thereby letting you do more things simultaneously, producing faster, more efficient results. Now your computer can keep up with even your heaviest multitasking.

Clock speed
Just like a stopwatch, clock speed measures how fast a processor performs an activity – which activity depends upon how you plan to use your computer. Clock speed rates are shown in gigahertz (GHz), which means a billion cycles per second.

 Intel® Smart Cache
Cache is a fast storage area where the processor places frequently accessed data. Smart Cache is Intel’s performance-maximized data storage. It allows each processor core to dynamically utilize up to 100% of available cache and obtain data from the cache at higher throughput rates. By keeping more data closer to the processor for fast execution, overall performance is improved. This is of particular benefit when running rich media titles and games, as well as everyday productivity applications.

 Silicon Technology
A nanometer (nm) is one-billionth of a meter. The transistors on Intel’s latest processors are just 32nm wide, while our previous generation processors are built on 45nm and 65nm architectures. This allows transistors to be packed more densely, leak less energy, produce less heat and switch faster, which leads to processors that run faster, use less power, and are more energy-efficient. It also means new features can be squeezed onto processors, so computer makers can focus on things like extending battery life, creating ever-sleeker designs and putting new wireless capabilities into devices. Lastly, it means Intel can keep bringing you better performance at relatively the same or even lower prices over time

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
Available on select models of the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology dynamically redirects power and accelerates performance to match your workload. Previously, unused portions of the chip would be “turned off,” leaving some cores idle. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology reroutes that unused performance to the cores that are active, boosting their performance without wasting power. As a result, you automatically get extra performance whenever you need it, and increased energy efficiency when you don’t.

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
Available on all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology delivers more efficient use of processor resources and improved performance on multithreaded software. This allows you to run demanding desktop applications simultaneously while maintaining

system responsiveness. For example, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology helps multimedia enthusiasts create, edit and encode graphically intensive files while running background applications, such as virus protection software, without compromise to performance.

Mozilla Labs Weave 1.0 RC2 is now released.

What’s changed since Beta 3?

• Faster startup times for Firefox and Fennec
• Make tabs available immediately when setting up another computer
• Automatically use the synced lightweight theme (Firefox 3.6+)
• A few more bug fixes related to changing passwords, mobile bookmarks, etc.

Release Notes

1. Upgrade all your clients to the latest version
   If you are using Weave Sync on multiple computers, you will need to update all of them to the latest version. Weave Sync requires that you use the same version of the addon on all your computers that you want to synchronize data to/from.
2. Hosting Your Own
   If you are hosting your own Weave server, you’ll need to add an apache alias line for the 1.0 URL – your old server will still handle the same API.

More Information
For information about previous versions as well as the latest development snapshots, check out the changelog

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What’s New in Firefox 3.5.7

Firefox 3.5.7 fixes the following issues:
- Fixed a common stability issue.
- Fixed a problem with how updates were being presented to users.

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.6 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

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Release Notes – Other Systems and Languages

Intel will use CES in Las Vegas this month to launch its First 32-nm Core i3 and Core i5 processors, as well as new Core i7 chips. These desktop and notebook processors will offer a host of features, including Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading, Integrated Graphics and On-Chip Memory Controllers.

Intel is preparing to launch a number of new Core processors for desktops and notebooks at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in January. At small events here and in San Francisco Dec. 17, Intel officials gave reporters a taste of what the chip maker will launch at the CES, which runs Jan. 7-10, 2010, in Las Vegas.

Intel will release new Core i7 chips, and release the first of its i3 and i5 processors, and i7 dual-core processors, built on the company’s 32-nanometer manufacturing process, though the officials at the New York event declined to say how many new chips would be rolled out.

Intel officials at the San Francisco briefing reportedly said there would be 17 new chips released in January.

The “Arrandale” and “Clarkdale” processors are all shipping now and will begin appearing in new computers in early 2010. Intel has invested more than $7 billion in the United States in 2009 on four factories used to build the 32-nm products.

At the journalist events, Intel also had several systems on display that were powered by the new chips. Several systems were running animated movies and video games, showing off the graphics capabilities of the new chips.

Karen Regis, director of consumer client marketing for Intel’s Consumer PC Group, said the new family of processors will come with a host of features, including Hyper Threading, while the i5 chips will offer Turbo Boost, which enables processing cores to run a little faster when the demand arises.

Intel also will introduce a Turbo Boost application that will enable users to see how the technology is working as they run applications. The application puts an indicator showing core power levels appears on the system‘s screen as a workload runs.

“It let’s [the user] see what Turbo Boost is doing for them in real time,” said Zane Ball, director of desktop platform marketing for Intel’s PC Client Group.

The new chips also will come with Intel HD graphics, a 45-nm graphics chip integrated with the CPU. The current quad-core Core processors, rolled out in the fall, offer discrete graphics capabilities.

Ball said improvements in the integrated graphics will enhance the Core chips’ high-definition video and audio capabilities, as well as 3D performance, Ball said.

Regis said demand for high-end graphics is growing, with consumers not only playing video games on their PCs, but also editing photos, voice and music content.

Ball and Regis also touted the on-chip memory controller, another new feature that has come with Intel’s “Nehalem” architecture, as well as per-core power management, which will shut down power to cores that aren’t being used.

However, there was some information they were declining to release, including chip frequencies and prices. Those will come when Intel makes its announcements Jan. 7 at CES, first at an early-morning press briefing and later during CEO Paul Otellini’s keynote address.

Intel sees a PC market that will be driven by the consumer side more than businesses, with Regis saying that after a flat 2009, the PC market is set to start growing again in 2010, thanks in part to Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Operating System.

“Beginning next year, we’ll see the commercial [sector] recovering,” she said.

Firefox 3.7 is said to start up 25% faster on Windows and will incorporate Jetpack which is an improved interface for plug-ins that makes them easier to write, install, and upgrade.

Firefox 3.7 is also expected to incorporate the first phase of work on Electrolysis. Electrolysis is designed to improve the stability of the browser by isolating processes into separate components. Plug-ins will also be moved to a process separate from the main browser. By separating components in this way, a problem with a process or plug-in won’t crash the entire browser.

Another key improvement with Firefox 3.7 is called Weave. This plug-in will synchronize bookmarks, passwords, plug-ins, and open tabs across different Firefox windows.?

Happy New Year 2010.

“Happy New Year” in Various Languages:

Scooopy Team Members Resolution for New Year’s 2010:

What’s your 2010’s Resolution?

Struggling to come up with a New Year’s resolution?

Try Monina Velarde’s New Year’s Resolution Generator

Best of luck for 2010.

WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available because the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, WordPress Dev Team Members are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.

RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade in your blog’s admin to get RC1.  You can also  download the RC1 package and install manually.

Mozilla Labs Weave 1.0 RC is now released.

What’s changed since Beta 3?

• Faster startup times for Firefox and Fennec
• Make tabs available immediately when setting up another computer
• Automatically use the synced lightweight theme (Firefox 3.6+)
• A few more bug fixes related to changing passwords, mobile bookmarks, etc.

Release Notes

1. Upgrade all your clients to the latest version
   If you are using Weave Sync on multiple computers, you will need to update all of them to the latest version. Weave Sync requires that you use the same version of the addon on all your computers that you want to synchronize data to/from.
2. Hosting Your Own
   If you are hosting your own Weave server, you’ll need to add an apache alias line for the 1.0 URL – your old server will still handle the same API.

More Information
For information about previous versions as well as the latest development snapshots, check out the changelog

WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1 is now available because the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, WordPress Dev Team Members are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.

The easiest way to test Beta 1 is to install the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, elect to get on the point release development track, and then perform an automatic upgrade via the Tools->Upgrade menu.  You can also download the Beta 1 package and install manually.  Fourteen tickets have been fixed in 2.9.1 Beta 1.  The curl problem and a couple of other problems are dependent on specific hosting configurations.

Opera 10.5 pre-alpha is now available for downloading & testing.

What’s new

Inside

• Carakan

  Carakan is our new JavaScript engine. It’s fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10 with Futhark on Windows (Mac optimization is not as far along). You can read more gritty details regarding register-based bytecode, automatic object classification and native code generation in the Opera Core blog.

  SunSpider Javascript Benchmark (runs per minute)

  

• Presto 2.5

  We are now using Presto 2.5, which contains a huge numbers of improvements. It also includes support for CSS3 transitions and transforms, and more HTML5 features like persistent storage.

• Vega

  Vega is our new graphics library. It’s currently software based and displays everything you see on-screen. Vega can be hardware accelerated, but as you can see from the complex graphics benchmark in Peacekeeper, we don’t seem to need it yet. (Note that Futuremarks Peacekeeper test does no include the results of their complex graphics tests in the overall score. We believe this is wrong in 2009 and will simply be silly if not changed in 2010.)

  Peacekeeper Complex Graphic Benchmarks

Outside

• Platform integration

  • On Windows 7/Vista, you will notice a lot of visual changes and use of APIs which allow the UI to display the Aero Glass effect. For Windows 7, we also added Aero Peek and Jump List support to easily access your Speed Dials, Tabs, etc. from the Taskbar.
  • For Mac, a complete rewrite in Cocoa brings an Unified Toolbar, native buttons and scrollbars, multi-touch gestures (try 3-Finger Swipe Left/Right or Pinch to zoom) and a bunch of other small details. We also added Growl notification support.

• “Private tab” and “Private window”

  You can open a new Private tab or Private window that forgets everything that happened on it once closed.

• Non-modal dialogs

  Dialog boxes (JavaScript alerts, HTTP authentication, etc.) are now non-modal and are displayed as a page overlay. This allows you to switch tabs or windows while the dialog is still displayed. Similarly, the Password Manager dialog is now anchored at the top of the page won’t block any content as it loads a new page.

• Address field and Search field improvements

  Both fields have been upgraded in looks and functionality. They can now remember searches, support removing items from history and show results in a better layout.

Download

To try it out, you can download the latest Labs build here:

• Windows
• Mac OS X (Intel)