660846 - Firefox 5 email story

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 661323

(Marketing :: Email, task)

Description

[Laura Mesa [:lmesa] [:lvmesa]]

Hey Winston,

Just filing this to see if we need to/want to do anything special with Fx 5 release on June 21st.

At minimum we need a story in the June newsletter.

Comment 1

[Winston Bowden]

Hey laura - I was planning on making this the lead for the June newsletter.  I'll touch base with you on content this week.

Comment 2

[Laura Mesa [:lmesa] [:lvmesa]]

Outline of what the lead story could look like:

Next version of Firefox is here!

We're really excited that the new version of Firefox is ready!
This release is all about momentum and continuing to improve the awesome of Firefox 4 as part of a faster release process that gets you the newest features in Firefox as quickly as possible.

What's New

1) Firefox 4 brought you Do Not Track, a feature that lets you indicate to advertisers that you do not want to be tracked.  With this new version, you'll see the option to enable DNT from your Privacy Tab of your Preferences menu

[screenshot]

2) Smoother scrolling and More UI Polish:  Scrolling through pages is going to feel even more seamless than with Fx 4.  We've also put a lot of effort into Pixel polish, so your browser looks and feels even cleaner.

3) We've partnered with NVidia to bring 3D HTML5 videos to the Web through Firefox. Using Vision Hardware, you are able to see several thousand special 3D HTML5 videos on Youtube when using Firefox 4 or higher.
Link to blog:http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2011/05/bringing-the-first-3d-html5-video-to-the-web-with-firefox-nvidia-and-youtube/

4) Along with over-all stability and performance enhancements, we have also added support for CSS Animations which will allow developers to build even more amazing Web experiences with graphics and video.
-https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_animations

5) Add-On Builder makes it easy for Web develoeprs to build compelling Firefox Add-Ons by providing more resources and building environments for developers to choose from. Developers can also choose to build add-ons that installa nd update withour interrupting the browsing experience. 

To install the latest version of Firefox go to your About Firefox menu and search for update--the latest version should download automatically.

[screenshot can be added if you want]