March 4, 2011

Thunderbird 3.1.9 Released

Mozilla Messaging has released an update for Thunderbird 3.1 on March 4th. This release addressed: Prevents a crash after update, that is affecting some users. For more information and to download see the Thunderbird 3.1.9 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 has ended! Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1

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Add to Search Bar :: Add-ons for Firefox

Trying various Linux installs I start with a new Firefox often and sometimes useful add-ons get dropped. Here is one I just added back. Make any pages’ search functionality available in the Search Bar (or “search box”)… You can also add variations of the same search engine. For example I just added the old style image search on Google to mine. Add to Search Bar :: Add-ons for Firefox Right Click Menu

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IE6 Still Kicking

Much to Microsoft’s dismay people are still using IE6 (released in 2001). 11%-12% of the browser market to be exact. Consider IE9 is suppose to be coming out later this year, Microsoft would really like to be done with IE6. So they have launched a site called IE6Countdown.com. The purpose of the site is to countdown the market share of IE6 until it reaches 1% (don’t expect that to be anytime soon). It also shows this market share by country. The country still using IE6 the most is China making up 35% of the usage of IE6. Source: Seattle PI:…

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Firefox 3.6.15 Released

Mozilla has released an update to Firefox 3.6 on March 4th. This release addressed an issue where some Java applets would fail to load in Firefox 3.6.14 See the release notes for more details. User should soon be prompted to upgrade but can also can by going to the Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates… There is no update for Firefox 3.5, 3.5.17 is the most update version released on March 1st.

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