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Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate 1) se basa en el motor de renderizado Gecko 1.9.1, que ha estado en desarrollo durante los últimos 10 meses. Firefox 3.5 RC1 ofrece muchos cambios sobre la versión anterior. Incluye muchas características nuevas, así como mejoras en su rendimiento, compatibilidad web, y velocidad. Y se han añadido nuevas características para los usuarios:

Esta Release Candidate 1 está disponible en más de 70 idiomas.

Mejora del control de sus datos, incluido un modo de navegación privada.

Mejora el rendimiento y la estabilidad con el nuevo motor de JavaScript TraceMonkey.

La capacidad de proporcionar Geolocalización, utilizando los estándares web.

Soporte nativo para JSON, y web worker thread.

Mejoras en el motor Gecko, incluyendo un mejor renderizado, para una carga más rápida y fluida de páginas web.

Soporte para las nuevas tecnologías web, en vídeo (HTML5) y audio, Fuentes descargables y propiedades CSS, JavaScript, HTML5 (aplicaciones de almacenamiento de datos), y SVG.

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Release Process:
As Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 is upcoming, I started the SeaMonkey 1.1.17 release process the same day the Gecko release branch was cut for those versions. People are encouraged to test the candidate builds. This release will contain a good number of security fixes compared to 1.1.16.

By KaiRo, at 15:41 June 10th, 2009

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Recomendamos, esperar a la versión final de Firefox 3.5.

Los 800.000 usuarios de Firefox 3.5 ßeta4 van a recibir una actualización a la "versión previa de Firefox 3.5" con el fin de ayudarnos, en la realización de nuevos ensayos y comentarios. Esta actualización, contiene muchas correcciones en errores de estabilidad, motor de JavaScript (TraceMonkey), mejoras en Ogg y vídeo basado en la reproducción de audio.

Aunque esta versión, todavía no ha completado las pruebas necesarias para ser declarada "Release Candidate", se considera estable para la navegación diaria y agradecemos tu ayuda en probar y evaluar esta versión previa.

Si eres usuario de Firefox 3.5 ßeta4, recibirás esta actualización automática en las próximas 24 horas. Para obtener la actualización inmediatamente, selecciona "Buscar actualizaciones ..." en el menú "Ayuda". Si aún no eres usuario de Firefox 3.5 ßeta4, te recomendamos esperar al próximo "Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate", que debería estar listo en las próximas semanas.

New Download Manager Lands In SeaMonkey!

The culmination of a long stream of work has just happened: The switch to the toolkit download manager has just landed on comm-central, along with the reworked tree-based download manager UI and the rewritten per-download progress windows (which formally aren't "dialogs" any more).

This is a rather large change code-wise: hg diff -r qparent -r qtip | diffstat before doing the actual qfinish and push told me that all those patches result in: 53 files changed, 5766 insertions(+), 620 deletions(-).

Most of the new code is the manager and progress UIs as well as the tests, the actual switch patch removes more than it adds due to obsoleting pref-applications-edit.xul, which the old file handling dialog needed to save the "remember this decision" checkbox info (yes, an evil hack). Once we come around to remove the code we actually obsoleted in the mozilla-{central,1.9.1} tree, the deletions of that work will probably outweigh the current insertions of code lines overall - some of the obsoleted code might even still be packaged but not used by toolkit (and therefore, even Firefox).

Thanks to Justin (Callek) for figuring out how to do this all and taking on the work to make the actual backend switch (really work), thanks to Frank (mcsmurf) for fixing all the review comments to the actual switch patch while Justin is mostly absent due to being busy with work and family and not having a useful Internet connection around - and thanks to Neil for all the reviews. Thanks for MDC and MXR and whoever wrote up useful in-code description of the tree interfaces that are not documented usefully on MDC yet, thanks to those who made it able that dropping in a custom UI to work with the toolkit download manager works at all. And thanks for all the people who have been patiently waiting for this to happen - including the localizers who couldn't have fully working localized builds - up to now.

And here's what this means for you:

If you are a SeaMonkey user, you will see a reworked download manager appearing in any 2.x builds from now on, starting with tomorrow's nightlies, and 2.0 Beta 1. This implementation can resume downloads (even across sessions), search in your performed or ongoing downloads, clear the list of completed downloads through "Clear Private Data" and store more download history without making SeaMonkey startup time longer, among other things.

If you are a localizer, you will see the localized builds working fully (and can advertise them to your testing community), including the download manager, also starting with those nightlies and (pre)release.

If you are a Mozilla or extension developer, you can count on SeaMonkey supporting/using the full toolkit download manager backend from now on.

There surely are a number of things to improve in the UI still, a number of which are filed as dependent bugs of the download manager and progress UI bugs linked above. We are in a state though where we feel we are ready for putting what we have into the upcoming SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1. Let us know how well it works for you and what we still can improve, both the backend and the UI code we have now (hey, even I understand the latter!) are a much better base to build those developments upon than the old xpfe code we had been using so far - you might even be able to work on it yourself!

By KaiRo, at 13:25 May 29th, 2009

KompoZer 0.8a4

Another step forward. For KompoZer 0.8a3 / 0.8a4 I’ve focused on these points:.

Changes:

• bugfixes and improvements on HTML source edition

• dual local/remote view in the site manager

• localization