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It’s not been so long that Mozilla released Firefox 5 final version for public, but today we have great news for Firefox lovers as Firefox 6 final is now available for Download on Mac, Windows and Linux via Mozilla FTP servers. It’s not available officially now but will be available anytime soon next week.

Firefox 6 Final does not bring any new changes to UI (User Interface). But though the new version bring alot of speed improvement while using the browser almost 20% faster than the previous Firefox 5.

Starting with Firefox 8, Mozilla will automatically block browser add-ons installed by other software until users approve them, a company product manager announced yesterday.

Software-bundled add-ons have been a problem for Firefox users, who have sometimes been surprised to find browser extensions show up on their machines without their consent.

Mozilla has announced a new experimental project called Boot to Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing an operating system that emphasizes standards-based Web technologies. The initial focus will be on delivering a software environment for handheld devices such as smartphones.

Mozilla's Chris Blizzard has published a blog entry that outlines the goals of Mozilla's renewed effort to bring multiprocess browsing to the Firefox Web browser. The post highlights the key advantages that deeper process isolation will bring to Firefox and addresses some of the underlying requirements for Mozilla's implementation.

Firefox product manager Asa Dotzler determined that figuring out the 64-bit confusion surrounding Firefox will be “near the top” of his to-do list this summer and fall. One could conclude that Mozilla has no idea at this point what people are expecting from a 64-bit version of Firefox, so Dotzler is asking for some feedback. Considering the advantages and disadvantages of 64-bit – are you ready for a 64-bit Firefox?

The classic way of logging into protected web sites usually starts with creating an account, picking a username, answering an email confirmation, doing password checks, often followed by a number of dialogs, and doing it for each and every site you want to log in to. The option of outsourcing logins and identity management is widespread – for instance, Yahoo, Facebook and Google use OpenID – but then there is the problem of vendor lock-in, data protection, and the complexity of implementation.

Mozilla on Friday said it would update Firefox for the Mac to deal with a bug in Apple's impending Lion operating system.

Firefox 5.0.1 is "coming soon," Mozilla announced in a blog post, but did not set a release date. Users running Microsoft Windows or Linux will not see the update. According to Mozilla, Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, contains a bug that causes Firefox 5 to crash when displaying websites that use downloadable fonts.

Version 6.0 of Firefox has been released into the Beta Channel after being developed in the "alpha" Aurora channel. If beta testing doesn't bring up any major problems then, according to the Mozilla Releases Wiki, the first production version of Firefox 6.0 will be available on 16 August.

Non-profit outfit Mozilla has got Firefox 5 ready ahead of schedule and has posted up the code ready for the official release on June 21.

The browser which is available from this this link for 32-bit Windows, over here for 32-bit Linux, over here for 64-bit Linux and here for Mac OS X boasts a bunch of new features, including a tweak of the 'Do Not Track' option and various improvements.

The update adds support for CSS transitions and there are improvements for canvas, HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, JavaScript, as well as better networking performance and memory management.

Mozilla has released the first beta of Thunderbird 5, its next generation email messaging client.

Mozzarella's popular open source Thunderbird email client has been slipped into the outfit's rapid release schedule, meaning that, as with the Firefox web browser, Thunderbird releases will be fast tracked, avoiding years of development time. Mozilla has said that it will skip version 4 altogether in order to align it with Gecko's versioning scheme.