Firefox Friday Five: Mozilla Labs in overdrive and some lovely Firefox wallpapers

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A happy, sweaty Friday to you all! This week we were meant to see the final release of 3.6.4, the minor release that 'crash proofs' Firefox. Instead, we have a release candidate -- the final release will probably come later in the month (along with the first beta of Firefox 4.0!)

Early testing from Mozilla suggests that 3.6.4's Crash Protection may significantly reduce crashes, so even if you are running a 3.7 beta version, make sure your friends and family grab 3.6.4 as soon as possible. My mother hates it when FarmVille crashes her entire browser.

All the while, Mozilla Labs has been working its ass off. Not only has Jetpack 0.4 been released, but there are also some very cool add-ons emerging that utilize it. On top of that we have a new design challenge (what if your browser had your complete contact list?) and a new experiment called 'sudosocial.me' that creates profile pages from OpenID.

Let's tuck in -- oh, and just after the break I have a furry Firefox anime/hentai wallpaper for you!

1. 64-bit Firefox is COMING!

Don't worry, you're not alone: no one at Download Squad really appreciates the significance of this little factoid either. All we know is that Mozilla has started to churn out 64-bit versions of Firefox. Yes, this means Firefox could now, in theory, manage more than 4GB of RAM and won't have to run in a compatibility layer... cool...

Anyway, almost no add-ons will work on 64-bit Firefox, and the only 'major' plug-in available is Java. There's actually an unofficial wiki for 64-bit versions of Firefox -- and until Mozilla says something officially about its 64-bit builds, the wiki's your best bet!

If you prefer official sources, you can grab a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows, Linux or Mac from the nightly trunk.

And now for the scantily-clad anime Firefox...

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