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Prism’s long march to final release got a little closer recently with the release of Prism 1.0 Beta 3 (Linux too). Prism is now using the same Gecko 1.9.2 as used in the newest Firefox 3.6 release. A big thanks to Matt Gertner for keeping Prism development moving along. Firefox for Mobile has been keeping me very busy.

There has been a lot of discussion about the future of the Mozilla add-on infrastructure. I think it’s clear now that Mozilla is not removing the classic add-on mechanism. In fact, Fabrice Desré found a nice bit of news on an upcoming feature (via comments on Atul’s post):

Thanks to Fabrice Desré and Wladimir Palant, development builds of AdBlock Plus support Fennec! The port embraces Fennec’s minimalistic design asthetic - exposing only a simple options UI. However, this is more than enough to make a great impact on browsing in Fennec.

The Nokia N900 has about 100MB of free space in the root file system partition. It doesn’t take installing many applications before it fills up. Nokia recommends installing applications to the /opt folder, which has about 1GB of space.

Desktop versions of Firefox have nightly update channels. New versions are automatically downloaded and available for install as they become available. Each morning, a Firefox user can quickly and easily update to the newest nightly version.

Firefox for Maemo beta 5 is Firefox! Huh?

Firefox for Maemo (Fennec) beta 5 has been released! This release packs in a lot of good stuff. I’ve been trying to highlight a few of the new features. This time, I want to tell you about some web form features.