LogicielsAu sommaire de cette bêta, une foule de bugs corrigés (environs 900 ! ) notamment au niveau de la sécurité, de la mémoire et d'autres qui occasionnaient quelques plantages assez désagréables.
L'autre nouveauté qui va de plus en plus prendre de l'ampleur, c'est la rénovation visuelle de Firefox. En effet, la navigateur va adopter une identité visuelle propre à la plateforme qui le fait tourner.
Pour l'instant rien de visuellement flagrant, vous remarquerez juste que le bouton Go a été intégré à la barre d'adresse et n'est plus apparent lorsque le site a fini de charger ses fichiers. Pour le faire apparaître, il suffit d'éditer la barre.
Donc pour résumer, pour l'instant ça ressemble à ça :
De gauche à droite, Firefox 3.0b2 sur XP Thème Classique et Luna, Firefox 3.0b3pre sur Ubuntu avec le thème Clearlooks et sur MacOS X Leopard
Maintenant, les développeurs vont se concentrer à faire un thème avec ces styles de boutons (attention l'image qui suit risque de choquer les âmes sensibles) :
On pourra donc s'attendre pour MacOS X à un résultat proche du thème Proto qui doit resembler à ça.
)A part ça, voici le changelog :
Releases Notes
More Secure
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.
Easier to Use
* [Improved in Beta 2!] New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and displays where a file came from.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
More Personal
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
Improved Performance
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in Beta 2, and will show further gains in future Beta releases.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Memory usage: Over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more. Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation. Beta 2 includes over 30 more memory leak fixes, and 11 improvements to our memory footprint.
Release Notes complète
Pour pouvoir tester la bêta, veuillez faire une sauvegarde de vos marque-pages avant de l'installer, une migration sera faite vers un fichier SQLite. Avec ceci, il est impératif de ne pas repasser de Firefox 3.0b2 au 3.0b1 car la structure du SQLite lié à Places a changé More Secure
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.
Easier to Use
* [Improved in Beta 2!] New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and displays where a file came from.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
More Personal
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
Improved Performance
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in Beta 2, and will show further gains in future Beta releases.
* [Improved in Beta 2!] Memory usage: Over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more. Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation. Beta 2 includes over 30 more memory leak fixes, and 11 improvements to our memory footprint.
Release Notes complèteLes extensions utilisant l'ancien gestionnaire de mots de passe ne seront plus compatibles avec cette version.
Toutes les extensions utilisant une adresse de mise à jour non sécurisée seront désactivées !
Tab Mix Plus (v 0.3.6 incluse) n'est également plus compatible avec cette version, une mise à jour est disponible sur le forum de l'auteur (à ce jour non compatible avec la mise à jour sécurisée).
Firefox 3 Bêta 2 EST incompatible avec Windows 95/98/ME et les MacOS X inférieurs à la version 10.4.
Télécharger Firefox 3 Bêta 2 pour Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/WS2008 en Français Télécharger Firefox 3 Bêta 2 pour MacOS 10.4 et plus en Français Télécharger Firefox 3 Bêta 2 pour Unix/Linux en FrançaisN'oubliez pas de vous créer un nouveau profil si vous n'avez pas encore testé une bêta de Firefox 3 (commande firefox -p sur Windows, firefox -ProfileManager sur Linux (et peut-être aussi MacOS X)).
Non recommandé ! Pour désactiver le contrôle des mises à jour sécurisées, il faut créer dans about:config une nouvelle valeur booléenne de nom "extensions.CheckUpdateSecurity" et lui attribuer la valeur "false" pour la désactiver et "true" pour la réactiver.
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Je rajoute vite le résultat attendu pour le Thème sur MacOS X
en tout cas j'éspere qu'il sera un peux plus rapide
1) Il n'y aura pas de Firefox 3.5 initialement prévu pour début 2009.
2) Plusieurs groupes se formeront sur plusieurs améliorations et ajout de fonctions à faire, une fois que tout le travail sur l'une des fonctions est terminé, ils intégreront cette fonction à l'une des versions de Firefox 3.0.x, cela leur permettra de voir les différents points à améliorer pour Gecko2/Firefox4.
3) Définir la date de sortie de Firefox 4 au mieux un an après la sortie de Firefox 3, au pire, Firefox 4 pourra sortir fin 2009.
Car faut-il le rappeler, Firefox 3 aura 3 thème différents selon le système d'exploitation hôte.
Winstripe pour Windows, Pinstripe pour OSX et Gnomestripe pour Linux.
Ils ont commencé par le plus simple, Gnomestripe, les icônes sont toute dans un thème Tango d'un bel effet, les fenêtres d'options, d'extensions ont légèrement changé d'aspect également.
Résultat provisoire entre la build d'hier et celle d'aujourd'hui :
Avant et après
EDIT : Le thème Proto pour MacOS X a été lancé, il sera dispo sur la prochaine nightly
Au sommaire des nouveautés : corrections de failles/bugs, ajouts et améliorations de fonctions sans compter la mise en place (petit à petit) des nouveaux thèmes. A noter pour ces derniers, rien n'est encore définitif, mais les versions Linux et Mac sont de loin les plus abouties, la version windows restant encore assez loin des résultats présentés antérieurement par les mockups.
Les différents thèmes d'icônes prévus pour les trois plateformes sont consultables grâce à ce petit récapitulatif :
Bref, voici le changelog :
More Secure
* [Improved in Beta 3!] One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you're connected to. (Try it here!)
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
Easier to Use
* [Improved in Beta 3!] New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and displays where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and spell-checker in web forms and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates.
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
More Personal
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. New in Beta 3 is an improved search algorithm which calculates the recency and frequency of a visit to come up with a frecency score that is used to determine the most relevant results.
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
Improved Performance
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases that continue to increase page drawing speed in Beta 3. This release also features over 90 changes that improve performance over the previous beta.
* [Improved in Beta 3!] Memory usage: Over 350 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more. Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation. Beta 3 includes more than 50 improvements to memory use over the previous beta.
Les extensions utilisant l'ancien gestionnaire de mots de passe (celui de Firefox 3 Alpha 4 et antérieurs) ne seront plus compatibles avec cette version.
Toutes les extensions utilisant un serveur de mise à jour non sécurisé seront désactivées !
Tab Mix Plus (v 0.3.6 incluse) n'est également plus compatible avec cette version, une mise à jour est disponible sur le forum de l'auteur (à ce jour non compatible avec la mise à jour sécurisée, il faudra chercher sur les dernières pages du sujet pour la version modifiée du 28 décembre ou une nouvelle version).
Firefox 3 Bêta 3 EST incompatible avec Windows 95/98/ME et les MacOS X inférieurs à la version 10.4.
N'oubliez pas de vous créer un nouveau profil si vous n'avez pas encore testé une bêta de Firefox 3 (commande firefox -p sur Windows, firefox -ProfileManager sur Linux (et peut-être aussi MacOS X)).
Non recommandé ! Pour désactiver le contrôle des mises à jour sécurisées, il faut créer dans about:config une nouvelle valeur booléenne de nom "extensions.checkUpdateSecurity" et lui attribuer la valeur "false" pour la désactiver et "true" pour la réactiver.
Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 4
Mozilla Firefox 4 alpha pre 1
PS: c'est pas encore les version définitive de firefox
Ce qu'on peut retenir des changements opérés pendant ce mois vont être assez flagrant pour les utilisateurs de Windows, mais un peu moins pour les utilisateurs Linux/MacOS.
En effet le thème de Windows se précise notamment avec l'amélioration de l'intégration dans XP ou Vista, il faudra noter que le thème n'est toujours pas définitif contrairement aux version Mac et Linux qui, eux, peuvent déjà savourer leur thème Proto et Tango.
Une autre nouveauté assez impressionnante, c'est l'amélioration du moteur Javascript. Avec l'intégration de PGO, la vitesse d"exécution des scripts s'améliore de plus de 50% ! Devenant aussi rapide que Safari
Pour le reste des changements, voici le changelog :
Easier to Use
* [Improved in Beta 4!] New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with Vista: Firefox now has Vista-specific icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and spell-checker in web forms and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
More Personal
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you're seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
Improved Performance
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in significant improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 4, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 Beta 4 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
Les extensions utilisant l'ancien gestionnaire de mots de passe (celui de Firefox 3 Alpha 4 et antérieurs) ne seront plus compatibles avec cette version.
Toutes les extensions utilisant un serveur de mise à jour non sécurisé seront désactivées !
Tab Mix Plus (v 0.3.6 incluse) n'est également plus compatible avec cette version, une mise à jour est disponible sur le forum de l'auteur (dernière version du 2 Mars).
Firefox 3 Bêta 4 EST incompatible avec Windows 95/98/ME et les MacOS X inférieurs à la version 10.4.
N'oubliez pas de vous créer un nouveau profil si vous n'avez pas encore testé une bêta de Firefox 3 (commande firefox -p sur Windows, firefox -ProfileManager sur Linux (et peut-être aussi MacOS X)).
Non recommandé ! Pour désactiver le contrôle des mises à jour sécurisées, il faut créer dans about:config une nouvelle valeur booléenne de nom "extensions.checkUpdateSecurity" et lui attribuer la valeur "false" pour la désactiver et "true" pour la réactiver.
Apparament c'est très complet, il ne manque plus que Mozilla Firefox 3 Bêta 4.
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More Secure
- One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you're connected to. (Try it here!)
- Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
- New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
- New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
- Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
- Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
- Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
- Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
- Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
- Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.
Easier to Use- Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
- Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
- New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
- Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
- Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
- Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
- Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
- Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
- Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
- Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
- Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in "word-by-word" mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
- Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
- Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
- [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
- [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
- [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
More Personal- Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
- Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
- Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you're seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
- Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
- [Improved in Beta 5!] Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches. Create and restore full backups whenever you want.
- Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
- Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
- Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.
Improved Platform for Developers- New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
- Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
- Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
- A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.
Improved PerformancePar contre tu aurais pu penser à en faire une tite news
Comme on pourrait le deviner par la mention RC1, les développeurs finalisent le plus possible ce qui reste à finaliser.
Les thèmes sur les différentes plateforme sont presque prêts (prise en charge du statut d'inactivité de la fenêtre de Firefox sur Leopard etc etc...) Mais le plus gros boulot qui a été à faire, c'est faire ressembler Firefox Vista à son environnement. Et ben c'est chose faite depuis cette nuit :
Firefox 3 Bêta 5 à gauche, une hourly de cette nuit à droite
Sinon entre la bêta 5 et la RC1, un gros bug concernant le plug-in flash avait fait son apparition, mais il est aujourd'hui corrigé (en fait ça fait 2 semaines qu'il est corrigé) et tout qui reste à faire c'est de corriger les mini-bug au démarrage du navigateur
D'ailleurs, si vous voulez consulter le statut de la RC1, c'est par ici.