April 2010

Firefox Lorentz Beta Released

Firefox Lorentz Beta (likely to be the Firefox 3.6.4 release scheduled for early May) was released today for testing purposes. So what is so special about this Beta release? Out Of Process Plugins (OOPP) or plugins running as their own processes. This come nearly a year from when Multi-Process Support Coming to Firefox was announced. Crashed Foxit Reader Plugin A fine example of the use of OOPP is Search Results Chrome « The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog where a mis-behaving plugin will not cause the entire browser to crash. Currently though only a couple plugins are supported, but as Percy…

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Firefox Release Recap: April 2010 Week 1

Just Released Firefox 3.0.19 – March 30, 2010 Firefox 3.5.9 – March 30, 2010 Firefox 3.6.3 – April 1, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.10 -TBD Firefox 3.6.4 – TBD Firefox 3.7a4 – TBD

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Aloe in Bloom

I have had this Aloe for nearly 10-years now. I believe this is the third pot it has been in as has outgrown the others. Last weekend I cleared out at least a dozen ‘off springs’, transplanting them into multiple pots. Over the past few years I have given a couple of these ‘off springs’ to my folks to help fill-in their backyard. The nice thing about the Aloe being a desert plant is it really doesn’t need much water and will grow like a weed. While they may turn a light brown/beige color, they will survive for quite a…

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We’ve Moved (Again)

Back in April 2009 we moved this blog off of the WordPress platform and on to GoDaddy’s Quick Blogcast platform. The year has come to an end and I have decided to move this blog back over to WordPress. While the Quick Blog did have some nice features such as font formatting, I just found it lacking in other areas. I’ve been using WordPress.com for nearly 4-years so I am more familiar and use to working with this platform. I have re-posted most of the release related entries from the past year. I did not bother re-posting the recaps with…

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We’ve Moved

It was about a year ago I had started the blog.elguru.me with GoDaddy’s Quick Blogcast platform. The year has come to an end and I have decided to move this blog over to WordPress. While the Quick Blog did have some nice features such as font formatting, I just found it lacking in other areas. I’ve been using WordPress.com for nearly 4-years so I am more familiar and use to working with this platform. For the most part I was able to recover and re-post most of the entries from the past year. I know there a couple early entries…

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We've Moved

It was about a year ago I had started the blog.elguru.me with GoDaddy’s Quick Blogcast platform. The year has come to an end and I have decided to move this blog over to WordPress. While the Quick Blog did have some nice features such as font formatting, I just found it lacking in other areas. I’ve been using WordPress.com for nearly 4-years so I am more familiar and use to working with this platform. For the most part I was able to recover and re-post most of the entries from the past year. I know there a couple early entries…

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Firefox 3.6.3 Released

Mozilla has released the second (there was no Firefox 3.6.1) update for Firefox 3.6.3 on April 1st. This update addressed the security vulnerability discovered and exploited last week during the Pwn2Own competition that challenges hackers to break the latest versions of the most popular web browsers. Users should be prompted soon to update, but can obtain this update via Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates… For complete list of changes and more information, please see the Firefox 3.6.3 Release Notes. Source: Mozilla Links

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Thunderbird Release Recap: April 2010

Editors Note: Due to the slow release of Thunderbird builds, Release Recaps will not be published on a weekly basis. Released this Month Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 – March 16th Thunderbird 3.0.3 – March 1st Thunderbird 3.1b1 – March 9th Thunderbird 3.0.4 – March 30th Schedule this Coming Month Thunderbird 3.1b2 – TBD Future Releases Thunderbird 3.0.5 – TBD 

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