May 2009

Mozilla Project Weekly Status: May 11, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) New blog template, thanks to morgamic, Sean Martell, and the kubrick folks New policy around “no surprises” posted to blog New category pages and simple user profiles New developer agreement 3.5.* now active in AMO, sending out email today or tomorrow to extension developers, currently around 52% are compatible with 3.5.* and higher 5.0.6 release totally focused on reskin and Bandwagon, will ship May 28 AMO Presentation now up on Slideshare, will blog this week. Welcome Chris Howse AMO Design Intern! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.11 schedule coming later this week likely a 6-week release to account for early-July holidays…

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Multi-Process Support Coming to Firefox

I am thrilled to finally see this being planned for Firefox. The ability for the browser and each tab to run as their own process was one of the greatest features of Google Chrome. I know what it is like to have to whole browser shut-down because of one problematic tab. I dealt with this for several weeks last tear and this year with AdBlock and WordPress causing a crash. Also have had this issue with my Thunderbird Blog when entering commonly used words on the title. In those instances, the entire browser shut-down. Right now this in the early…

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Firefox Release Recap: May Week 1

Just Released NONE Schedule this Coming Week NONE Future Release Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 MU – Early/Mid May Firefox 3.0.11 – Early June 2009 Firefox 3.5b5 – TBA

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Mozilla Project Weekly Status: May 4th 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) New blog template, thanks to morgamic, Sean Martell, and the kubrick folks New policy around “no surprises” posted to blog New category pages and simple user profiles New developer agreement 3.5.* now active in AMO, sending out email today or tomorrow to extension developers, currently around 52% are compatible with 3.5.* and higher 5.0.6 release totally focused on reskin and Bandwagon, will ship May 28 AMO Presentation now up on Slideshare, will blog this week. Welcome Chris Howse AMO Design Intern! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.9 Released April 22nd Firefox 3.0.10 Firedrill Release April 27th Final major update for Firefox…

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Beware of Microsoft: IE 8 ‘Windows Update’

I mentioned earlier today in my personal blog, that I discovered Microsoft has released and upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. However this upgrade is in the form of a Windows Update. Now before I start getting an Inbox full of hate mail, I want to make it clear I don’t have a problem with an upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. What I have the problem with is the way Microsoft is delivering this upgrade. I know that many people never look at their Windows Updates or they just allow the updates to be automatically installed. I get customers calling in…

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Beware of Microsoft: IE8

I noticed I had more than usual one or two updates for Windows Vista today. I always look through the updates before I install in case there is something I don’t want. I was looking at the updates list and saw I had the usual new definitions for Windows Defender, an update for IE7 (not that I really use it) as well as an update for Microsoft .NET Framework (for whatever reason my laser printer insisted .NET Framework was to be installed). Okay so far so good, but wait what the heck is this last one Internet Explorer 8 for…

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Firefox Release Recap: April Week 5

Just Released Firefox 3.0.10 – April 27, 2009 Firefox 3.5b4 – April 27, 2009 Schedule this Coming Week NONE Future Release Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.9 MU – Late April Firefox 3.0.11 – Early June 2009 Firefox 3.5b5 – TBA

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