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Mozilla Releases New Firefox Version Without Australis


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Mozilla has announced a while ago that it was planning to change the appearance of its Firefox Internet browser, using a new theme called Australis. All well and good, but the community hasn't reacted favorably and even accused Mozilla that it was making the browser too similar to Google Chrome.

Australis is already a part of Mozilla Thunderbird, and you can always check the latest version of that RSS and email client to see how it looks.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla also released a new development branch, 28.x, which includes the Australis theme. Everyone using the nightly version of Firefox would have been forced to adopt it, even if they didn't want it.

Now, a Mozilla developer has announced the release of a new branch called Holly, with the same version number, which is the normal Firefox without Australis.

“Holly is the version of Nightly that doesn’t include the Australis changes. We are running this special ‘backout’ branch of Nightly because Australis won’t be ready to make the move to Firefox Aurora by the December 9th merge date.”

“We will continue to work on Australis in the Nightly 29 train, with the goal of Australis merging to Firefox Aurora 29. In the meantime, the Holly branch is what will be merged to Firefox Aurora 28,” said Jared Wein, M.Sc. and Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla on the Firefox team.

This is very good news for the people who are still clinging to the way Firefox looks and feels today, but you have to keep in mind that Australis is happening and this is just a temporary solution.

Download - Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.


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i think that Mozilla should give the user's the option, on installation of Firefox to chose to use Australis or the Holly version (choice helped with screenshots of the GUI's) :showoff:

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Gee, why don't they just make Australis have the option of new or classic look? I hate Australis, and have left the nightly users.

Ahhhh, Holly looks like Firefox should!

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I appreciate that news, but unfortunately i´ll keep using Nightly Australis just because Holly did not release a x64 bit yet.

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watz this holly polly.. any screenshot of the browser

looks like mozilla really doing lot to survive...or else their time will also come to pack up their bag like opera

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I appreciate that news, but unfortunately i´ll keep using Nightly Australis just because Holly did not release a x64 bit yet.

i'm unaware that mozilla had a x64 version out there :huh:

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watz this holly polly.. any screenshot of the browser

No need for any screenshot. Holly is a temporary branch of Firefox without Australis code. It will be abandoned if/when Australis finally becomes part of the default distribution.

i'm unaware that mozilla had a x64 version out there :huh:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-us/questions/974005

If you're interested check out Pale Moon or Waterfox.

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I recommend everybody to use Pale Moon. My reasons for my personal moving to that browser i said in http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/197166-suggestion-frontpaging-pale-moon-browser/ .

Pale Moon does have the x64 compilation.

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watz this holly polly.. any screenshot of the browser

No need for any screenshot. Holly is a temporary branch of Firefox without Australis code. It will be abandoned if/when Australis finally becomes part of the default distribution.

i'm unaware that mozilla had a x64 version out there :huh:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-us/questions/974005

If you're interested check out Pale Moon or Waterfox.

thank you janedoe but i mean't an official supported x64 version from Mozilla. Pale Moon and Waterfox are unofficial x64 versions ;)

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thank you janedoe but i mean't an official supported x64 version from Mozilla. Pale Moon and Waterfox are unofficial x64 versions ;)

As the link I provided states clearly, the closest you'll get to an official release from Mozilla is the nightlies.

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watz this holly polly.. any screenshot of the browser

No need for any screenshot. Holly is a temporary branch of Firefox without Australis code. It will be abandoned if/when Australis finally becomes part of the default distribution.

i'm unaware that mozilla had a x64 version out there :huh:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-us/questions/974005

If you're interested check out Pale Moon or Waterfox.

thank you janedoe but i mean't an official supported x64 version from Mozilla. Pale Moon and Waterfox are unofficial x64 versions ;)

For Manju :

I´ll give you two directly links here you can see and download x64 Official Mozilla FF...

Just to say, x64 Mozilla FF is called Nightly version, on Nightly channel...

From this first site you can see all recent builds released from Mozilla, ( This Site is not Official Mozilla site, but, the Browser is! )

" http://www.mozilla64bit.com/ "

This Second is official Mozilla directly FTP site, here you see, all Nightly files, update daily.

" http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/ "

And for the Oscar´s here is the installer if you choose you download directly

" http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/firefox-29.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe "

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Holly updated for version 29.x :)

Yeah, i saw either, but still Mozilla don´t release a Holly x64 version.

I´ll keep using Nightly with Australis...

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Sincerely after one week using new Australis,

I even like now, how Mozilla is leading way with Australis.

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So Mozilla keeps updating Holly with same update schedule they update Nightly? And Holly is Nightly build also?

Is there any screenshots available of this Holly build?

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