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Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.0

19/07/2011 45 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

On aura finalement pas eu à attendre longtemps avant qu’une nouvelle version majeure de Virtualbox arrive, car à peine 3 jours après la 4.0.12, Oracle publie Virtualbox 4.1.0 avec des nouveautés bien sympathique comme :

  • La possibilité de cloner ses disques virtuels (avec un nouvel assistant)
  • Un autre nouvel assistant bien plus évolué pour créer ses disques
  • La possibilité de retirer un disque virtuel SATA à chaud (expérimental)
  • La limite de mémoire élevée jusqu’à 1To pour les machines hôtes 64 bits
  • La possibilité d’activer Aero et Direct3D dans les machines virtuelles ayant Windows Vista ou supérieur grâce à un pilote WDDM expérimental
  • La correction d’un crash sur les plateformes hôtes Linux ayant un kernel antérieur au 2.6.29
Ce n’est pas tout, la version 4.1.0 contient bien d’autres corrections, voici la liste :

VirtualBox 4.1.0 (released 2011-07-19)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

  • Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see the manual for more information): full clones can be created through the GUI and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage
  • GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks
  • GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks
  • GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only; bug #7822)
  • VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB
  • Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see the manual for more information
  • Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode anymore)
  • Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be queried separately by the frontends
  • Networking: new network attachment mode « Generic Driver », which offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately distributable virtual network implementations
  • Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
  • New Networking Mode UDP Tunnel: allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently, see the manual for more information
  • Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage
  • Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for Solaris 11 build 159 and above

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

  • VMM: more SMP timer fixes
  • VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests
  • VMM: many small fixes
  • GUI: when reverting to a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot of the current state
  • GUI: added a View menu
  • GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks
  • GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest, see the manual for more information.
  • GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of a VM (bug #1551)
  • GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)
  • GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable
  • GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration dialog
  • VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port
  • VBoxManage: changed syntax of the guestcontrol command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options
  • VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment of the balloon size for running VMs
  • Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to be a valid UUID
  • Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used twice in a VM configuration
  • Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error cases
  • Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e. the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can improve performance
  • Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only on a temporary basis
  • Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are exact duplicates including the UUID
  • Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)
  • Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential images in VDI format
  • Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and VMDK format
  • Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #6651)
  • BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)
  • USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver
  • NAT: reduced memory footprint
  • Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs are transmitting in parallel
  • Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox
  • Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)
  • VRDP: support for TLS connections (see the manual for more information)
  • VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS RDP clients
  • VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption
  • 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #4491)
  • Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when removing a VM
  • Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion
  • Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #8014)

:dl: Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.0 pour tous systèmes

Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.12

16/07/2011 50 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

Nouvelle version de maintenance pour le virtualiseur de système d’exploitation d’Oracle. En effet, en attendant la version 4.1, la version actuelle se dote de quelques corrections principalement pour être prête à être exécutée sous MacOS X Lion (10.7).

Il y a quand même quelques corrections pour les autres systèmes…

Changelog :

VirtualBox 4.0.12 (released 2011-07-15)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
  • Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
  • VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188 )
  • Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances whith VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150 )
  • Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592 )
  • Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
  • Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
  • 3D support: fixed GL_VERSION string for different locales (bug #8916 )
  • Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official builds
  • Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014 )

:dl: Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.12 pour tous systèmes

Adobe Flash Player 11 bêta 1 disponible… 64bits en prime

14/07/2011 131 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

Pour Adobe, le développement de Flash continue et a pour objectif de contrer le succès grandissant de l’adoption du langage HTML5. Ainsi, la firme vient tout juste de publier une 1ère bêta de la future version 11 de son plug-in Flahs Player adoptant de nouvelles fonctions, encodeurs/décodeurs et fonctionnalités.

La première que l’on remarque est la disponibilité tout nouvelle de versions 64bits pour MacOS X, Linux et… Windows, ce qui redonnera un peu d’intérêt aux versions 64bits d’Internet Explorer 9 et de Firefox 8.0a1 « Nightly ». Les autres nouveautés sont listés ci-dessous :

  • Stage3D APIs — Permet de créer des visuels hautement interactifs améliorant la collaboration sur les modèles en 3 dimensions.
  • Compression G.711 audio pour la téléphonie — Intègre la voix/téléphonie à l’intérieur d’applications commerciales en utilisant le codec G.711.
  • Encodage H.264/AVC SW — Permet d’encoder localement des vidéos de haute qualité en utilisant le codec vidéo H.264.
  • Socket Progress Events — Permet de créer des applications de partage de fichiers comme des clients FTP pouvant envoyer un grand nombre de données.
  • Son HD surround — Délivre un son surround en 7.1 sur des vidéos Full HD directement sur des télévisions intégrant la plateforme AIR.

Opera 11.50 Final

28/06/2011 16 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

Après deux mois de gestation depuis la dernière mise à jour majeure (11.10), la firme norvégienne Opera Software nous propose aujourd’hui une nouvelle version, la 11.50, avec quelques changements majeurs surtout situés au niveau de l’interface.

En effet, les trois éditions (Windows, Mac et Linux) ont tous eu droit à un rafraîchissement de leur interface pour ressembler ainsi le plus possible au système d’exploitation les faisant tourner. Mais ce n’est pas tout, la nouvelle version intègre une nouvelle version du moteur Presto, des corrections de bugs au niveau de l’IMAP sous Opera Mail, une correction sur le partage de cookies entre les extensions d’Opera et le reste du navigateur. Ces derniers ont également leur place sur le Speed Dial (page d’accueil) et permettent d’afficher des infos directement sur l’écran… sans oublier naturellement les améliorations de la prise en charge de HTML5, CSS3 et SVG.

:site: Consulter le changelog de la version Windows, MacOS X et Linux (en anglais)

:dl: Télécharger Opera 11.50 Final pour Windows, MacOS X et Linux

Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.10

27/06/2011 17 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

5ème mise à jour de maintenance pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle. Au programme, diverses corrections de bugs au niveau de la gestion des disques durs, de MacOS X Lion (10.7) et du support de Gnome 3.0. Les utilisateurs du logiciel étant sous un Kernel Linux en 3.0 se voit corrigés d’un bugs frappant la détection des instructions matérielles Intel VT-x.

Pour le reste voici le changelog :

Changes in VirtualBox 4.0.10 (2011-06-27):
* GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)
* Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images
* Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)
* Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant (for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)
* Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot
* USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)
* USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests (partial fix for bug #8978)
* ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)
* RDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)
* rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0
* OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK file was not written during export
* Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
* Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix
* Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)
* Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux binaries
* Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles
* Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)
* Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests (4.0.8 regression)
* Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix
* Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #9068)

:site: Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.10 pour tous systèmes.

Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.8

16/05/2011 46 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

4ème mise à jour mineure pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation d’Oracle alias Virtualbox. Dans cette mouture, c’est un nombre limité de corrections qui ont été intégré, en effet, les principales fonctions corrigées sont la gestion multicoeurs et 64 bits sous MacOS X, la correction du rendu de GNOME 3 sous Ubuntu Natty et Fedora 15 sans oublier les quelques bugs sur les additions invités…

Voici le changelog en détails :

VirtualBox 4.0.8 (released 2011-05-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)
  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389)
  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606)
  • GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)
  • VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format
  • VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
  • NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests
  • Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting
  • E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)
  • SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)
  • Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)
  • Floppy: several improvement
  • HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)
  • USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only)
  • 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window
  • 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
  • Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
  • Shared Folders: don’t stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)
  • Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795)
  • Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
  • Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)

:dl: Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.8 (attention si le site n’est pas encore à jour, c’est par ici qu’il faut aller)

Portal 2 : Le 1er patch additionnel sera gratuit

29/04/2011 60 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

C’est une nouvelle assez intéressante pour tous les possesseurs du jeu Portal 2, Valve vient de faire un communiqué annonçant que le 1er patch additionnel (appelé « DLC » chez eux) sera 100% gratuit sur les plateformes PC, Mac, Playstation 3 et XBox 360.

Ce « DLC » apportera aux fans du jeu de nouvelles salles de tests, un mode challenge solo et multi ainsi qu’un système de classement en ligne. D’autres nouveautés feront également parti du patch mais ils sont encore tenus secret…

Le patch est prévu pour une sortie cet été.

Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.6

22/04/2011 33 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

Nouvelle version de maintenance pour le virtualisateur de systèmes d’exploitation Virtualbox. Au menu, corrections de bugs…

VirtualBox 4.0.6 (released 2011-04-21)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring a VMM from a saved state
  • VMM: don’t crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads; implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)
  • VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE (bug #8006)
  • VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
  • GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)
  • GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)
  • GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)
  • GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM (bug #8469)
  • GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy selectors
  • GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)
  • GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing folder (bug #8673)
  • Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
  • Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory
  • 3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate (Windows hosts only; bug #7133)
  • Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)
  • Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network
  • Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)
  • Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an I/O error occurred
  • Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset (bug #8276, #8294)
  • Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM
  • ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as ‘none’ if no medium is present
  • Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)
  • Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)
  • Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour
  • Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
  • Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)
  • NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static assigned IPs (bug #8609)
  • VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication library (bug #8063)
  • Shared Folders: don’t fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute, for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)
  • Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)
  • USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)
  • HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)
  • OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is changed on import
  • OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias
  • OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with multiple disks (bug #8253)
  • rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions (bug #8593)
  • Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized
  • Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while captured
  • Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode (shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)
  • X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
  • X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1
  • Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)
  • Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
  • Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead to unkillable VM processes
  • Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling
  • Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)
  • Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
  • Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)
  • Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo
  • X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final
  • Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes
  • Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)
  • Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests (bug #7946)
  • Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9
  • Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution
  • Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size

:dl: Télécharger Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0.6

Sortie de Mozilla Firefox 4.0 final

21/03/2011 34 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

On l’a attendu pendant un peu plus d’1an et 1 mois et le voici qui arrive (enfin) en version finale. En effet, le navigateur maison de la fondation Mozilla vient d’arriver en version 4.0 après 9 alphas, 12 bêtas et 2 RCs et nous apporte de grosses nouveautés par rapport à son prédécesseur Firefox 3.6.x

Pour commencer, la 1ère changement flagrant est l’interface du logiciel. Un menu global, les onglets qui passent au dessus de la barre d’adresses et plus aucune barre de statut. C’est peut-être un choc pour les puristes qui se diront « tiens, Google Chrome… » mais ils peuvent savoir que tout est configurable pour avoir l’ancien aspect.

2ème changement plus flagrant, les performances du logiciel. Ainsi Firefox 4.0 s’ouvre un peu plus vite, charge les pages plus vite, exécute le code javascript beaucoup plus vite (notamment grâce à JaegerMonkey qui a été couplé à TraceMonkey) pour améliorer les performances jusqu’à 3x (sous Sunspider, peut être un peu moins sous les autres benchs).

Mozilla Firefox améliore également sa compatibilité avec HTML5, CSS3, et autres technologies, intègre le codec WebM pour lire les vidéos et accélère matériellement le rendu des pages grâce à Direct2D et DirectWrite (l’affichage est flou ? C’est à cause de Microsoft qui n’a pas sorti son patch !).

De plus, le navigateur intègre également Sync pour sauvegarder vos préférences, favoris et les retrouver sur n’importe quel ordinateur que vous toucher (du moment qu’il aie Firefox 4), il intègre également un nouveau gestionnaire d’extensions et de mots de passes.

Voici d’ailleurs le changelog de Mozilla Firefox 4 :

  • Firefox 4 is available in over 80 languages
  • Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine that is up to six times faster than Firefox 3.6
  • Support for the Do Not Track (« DNT ») header that allows users to opt-out of behavioural advertising
  • Firefox Sync is included by default, allowing you to securely synchronize between multiple computers and mobile devices
  • Certain graphics rendering operations are now hardware-accelerated using Direct3D 9 on Windows XP, Direct3D 10 on Windows Vista and 7, and OpenGL on Mac OS (OpenGL on Linux will be supported in the future)
  • Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users
  • WebGL is enabled on all platforms that have a capable graphics card with updated drivers
  • Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format, hardware accelerated where available
  • Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users
  • Tabs are now on top by default on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
  • You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
  • The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
  • The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you’d like)
  • Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins
  • You can turn any tab into an « App Tab » by right-clicking on it and selecting « Make into App Tab » from the context menu
  • The default homepage design has been refreshed
  • Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance
  • Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations
  • Additional polish for the Firefox Add-ons Manager
  • Improved web typography using OpenType with support for ligatures, kerning and font variants
  • Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions
  • Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system
  • HTML5 Forms API makes web based forms easier to implement and validate
  • Support for the new proposed Audio Data API
  • Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over SSL
  • A new feature called Panorama gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped
  • An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations
  • Firefox now supports the HTML5 video « buffered » property
  • Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation
  • New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
  • Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions
  • CSS Transitions are partially supported
  • Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently
  • Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs
  • More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction
  • Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload
  • CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user’s browsing history
  • New HTML5 parser
  • Support for more HTML5 form controls
  • Web authors can now get touch events from Firefox users on Windows 7 machines
  • A new way of representing values in JavaScript that allows Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code (used for things like graphics and animations) more efficiently

:site: Consulter les notes de versions de Mozilla Firefox 4.0

Téléchargement :

Mozilla Firefox est (encore) compatible avec Windows 2000 et XP mais l’accélération matérielle ne sera disponible que pour XP, Vista et 7. Coté Apple, il vous faudra un MacOS X 10.5 minimum et enfin coté Linux, une distribution pas trop vieille fera l’affaire.

:dl: Télécharger Mozilla Firefox 4.0 (Français) : Windows 32bitsMacOS X 32bitsLinux 32bitsLinux 64bits

[MAJ] Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC2

09/03/2011 38 vu(e)s Aucun commentaire

MAJ 19/03/2011 : Sortie de la RC2 de Mozilla Firefox pour combler deux failles de sécurité et désactiver certains certificats HTTPS. La sortie de la version finale est toujours prévue le 22 Mars.

:site:  Consulter les notes de version de Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC2

:dl: Télécharger Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC2 (Français) : Windows 32bitsMacOS X 32/64 bitsLinux 32 bitsLinux 64 bits

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Et voici enfin la version presque finale de la nouvelle mouture du navigateur de la maison Mozilla qui nous arrive donc en version 4.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1).

Quoi de neuf par rapport à la Bêta 12 ? Très très peu de choses. Concrètement les derniers bugs les plus gênants ont été corrigés et d’autres ont été reportés à une version post-4.0.

:site: Consulter les notes de version de Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC1

Si pour les développeurs cette RC1 passe tous les tests en interne, il se pourrait bien qu’elle devienne la version finale (d’après le dernier rapport en date).

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC1 est donc disponible au téléchargement pour Windows 2000 et supérieurs, MacOS X 10.5 et supérieurs et Linux.

:dl: Télécharger Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC1 (Français) : Windows 32bitsMacOS X 32/64 bitsLinux 32 bitsLinux 64 bits