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For those of you who have never encountered the most undescriptive error message Internet Explorer has to offer, it’s a doozie. No graceful javascript error, just an infinite popup with the words “stack overflow at line: 0″.
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A few months ago Mozilla announced that the organization will only continue to support version 1.5.0.x of the browser through late April. The information came via a security update for both Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, with an extra note saying that the older version will be “maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007.” After that date Firefox 1.5 will no longer receive updates from Mozilla and all remaining users should upgrade to Firefox 2 if they want to keep receiving updates to the browser.

To keep it interesting, Firefox 3.0 is already well into Alpha (version 5 comes out next week), Beta 1 is expected in July of 2007, and they have posted an estimated release of November on their roadmap. You can get more details from the release schedule posted on the Mozilla website. Curious what they are up to? So were we. Mozilla has a site just for us developers stating some of what’s new. Some cool css improvements, a move to javascript 1.8, support for regular expressions, and much more.

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Firefox add-ons, also known as extensions, and sometimes confused with pluggins, have completely cemented our loyalty to Firefox as a development tool. Why? Because these little tools are so powerful, and Firefox has provided significantly more options than Internet Explorer or Safari. Not sure what add-ons are? They are small pieces of software that add new features or tiny tweaks to your browser. Many are useless, but some are absolutely spectacular.
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