[I wanted to send this announcement late last night, but my computer  crashed multiple times while trying to make the backup to DVD.]

 

Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.13 are released for OS/2.

 

Firefox 3.5.2 is the first time a browser is released on mozilla.org for OS/2 in the "Gecko 1.9.1" line. More on that below.

 

Firefox 3.0.13 is a standard security and stability release without OS/2 specific changes from 3.0.12. Two critical and one moderately severe security hole was fixed in cross-platform code.[1]

 

Both releases are available from <http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ >
The ZIP packages, the README file, the MD5 checksum, and the Language
Pack directories are listed on this page.

 

This is the first time I'm doing a release of Firefox 3.5.
Walter Meinl, Stefan Schmohl, Rich Walsh, Dave Yeo, and I, with more help from other people, have done quite a bit of work in the last year to make FF 3.5 available on OS/2, this work is not completely finished yet. While the program should be as stable as Firefox 3.0.x, some of the new features are missing, most notably HTML5 media support (in-browser video and audio without plugins[2]) and downloadable fonts ("@font-face") are not supported yet. We'll be adding improvements to
the Firefox 3.5.x line with the next releases.

 

But we still hope that many people start using FF 3.5. The earlier you find problems, the easier it is to fix them! If you find bugs of FF 3.5, especially if they were not present in Firefox 3.0 (or 2.0.0), please
post in this newsgroup or open a new bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org.

 

[1] Please note that the Firefox 2.0.0.x line has been unsupported for  half a year. Since then, numerous security problems in Mozilla code  have been discovered, but only fixed in Firefox 3.x. Using FF  2.0.0.x is therefore risky, unless you fully trust the web pages you
visit!


[2] For the moment, if you want a Firefox 3.5.2 build _with_ media
support, you can try Walter Meinl's package from
<ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/ >.

 

Official Warpzilla Ports: www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/


Please reply in newsgroup mozilla.dev.ports.os2:

Enhanced OS/2 builds: pmw-warpzilla.sf.net
Steve's Warpzilla Tips: www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html

 

 By: Peter Weilbacher

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