Firefox 8 is out! Review in few sentences.

Version 8.0 of our favourite browser has been released. The folks from Mozilla are following the fast release cycle. Soon I will be moving to Firefox 9 beta but I thought it would be nice to make a post about what is new in Firefox 8 is a few short sentences.

1. Again there are no changes in design so it safe to update. My themes are compatible. Hope you like them.
2. Speed has been slightly improved compared to version 7. It feels a bit faster.
3. Guys from Mozilla fixed some bugs

What's new in Firefox 8:

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:

• Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
• Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
• Added Twitter to the search bar for select locales. Additional locale support will be added in the future
• Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
• Improved performance and memory handling when using <audio> and <video> elements
• Added CORS support for cross-domain textures in WebGL
• Added support for HTML5 context menus
• Added support for insertAdjacentHTML
• Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages
• Improved WebSocket support
• Fixed several stability issues
• Fixed several security issues

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. Web and extension developers should also view the curated list of platform changes. You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version.

That's basically all users. Changes are not that big but I guess Mozilla is trying to take small steps in Firefox development. I still think that this should be version 4.0.4 but hey I'm just a theme developer. I can't do anything about this.

Have a nice day! : )

Firefox 10 Nightly Released

After they released Firefox 7.0.1 Mozilla released Firefox 10 nightly. Firefox 8 moved to Beta channel, and Firefox 9 moved to Aurora channel. Firefox 10 has already landed to the nightly channel of Firefox. The most recent nightly build version is Firefox 10.0a1 (alpha).

Compared to Firefox 9 Firefox 10 nightly has nothing new for now besides the version number change. Firefox team has a long list of new features for the Firefox 10. Some of them currently being considered by the team are : Add-ons default to compatible, plugincheck functionality in add-on manager panel, improved display of location bar results etc. Firefox Mobile may get new features like Text Readability, Flash support (on Android platform) etc. 

Along with these features, the final version of Firefox 10 will bring many new tools for developers like Console Object Completion, more powerful and integrated Code Editor, Style Inspector and Editor. 

Firefox 7 coming tomorrow.

According to Mozilla Firefox 7 should be released tomorrow. Currently I'm using the beta and it definitely starts and loads pages faster. Personally I don't expect anything new in terms or performance or design. They are probably going to fix a few more bugs in the final release.

Meanwhile all my Firefox themes support Firefox 7 and 8 alpha. Everything works and looks fine. Latest versions of Sky Pilot and Purple Fox which includes 2 awesome new designs have been approved and are now available on the Mozilla add-ons site. Hope you like the new designs and bug fixes.

Next on the update list is Orange Fox and I'm working on a 3rd Bloody Red sub-skin ( see post below ) which should be released as soon as version 7.0.19.09.11 gets reviewed. Hope you like what I'm doing and despite the fact that I have less time to work on themes I'm doing the best I can to keep my themes compatible with newer Firefox versions.

Enjoy and please donate if you can. Even the smallest donation helps. If you want to help you can donate by clicking the pay pal button on the left. Thanks!

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New version of Sky Pilot waiting for the editors review!

New version of Sky Pilot Classic is finally here!Here's what's new.

Version 7.0.08.09.11 of Sky Pilot :
*Fixed categories bug with Firefox 6 and above
*Fixed tab group bug
*Fixed close button bug with Windows 7
*Fixed tab background bug and added a lighter background
*Added background to active tab
*Fixed background bug with alert box
*Added background to active tab in add-ons manage
*Fixed small bugs with min,max,close buttons
*Added new and improved look to the Firefox tiny menu buton
*Fixed background bug in options window
*Fixed white background bug when you click on home icon with the scroll of your

Hope you like the new version.I've put a lot of work in fixing these bugs, especially the tab background.Also some people where saying that the version number confuses them.
7.0 is the number of Firefox I'm using in this case Firefox 7 beta

About the numbers people are saying that I should put the month in front of the date.I don't know where you live bug here in my country we write it date,month,year.I apologise if I confused someone but that's how I'm used to it.After all the theme is what matters not the version number.Don't criticize me for that. : )

Download Sky Pilot from HERE!

Remember every navigator needs a pilot!

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