September 24, 2008

Fx 3.0.3 Coming Next Week

Firefox 3.0.3 Released Bug #451155 found in the recent Firefox 3.0.2 release has been found to prevent access to saved passwords that include international characters either in the web address the password is saved for, the login, or the password itself. A firedrill update (Firefox 3.0.3) will be released sometime next week. Mike Beltzner, Firefox lead, explains in a post to the mozilla.dev.planning group: The symptom is that users who have password data stores with non-ASCII data saved as something other than UTF-8 (more common for people who have saved passwords on IDN domains or non en-US domains) will not…

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Gmail to handle Mailto/Send Link…

New with the Firefox 3.0.2 release, Gmail has been bundled as a web mail provider. Gmail can automatically handle (in lieu of Thunderbird or Outlook) Send Link… (via file or context menu) and ‘Mailto’ links with a few short steps: Open the Options window (or Preferences on Linux and Mac), Click the Applications tab Type ‘mailto’ in the Search Field In the Action column Select Use Gmail. Click OK (no restart needed) Thanks for the tip Claus. Source: Mozilla Links

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