December 5, 2011

Several Mozilla Sites Down

addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and several other Mozilla sites including Bugzilla, Sync and the Mozilla Support site are currently experiencing service issues. You can check the status here.

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Several Mozilla Sites Down

addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and several other Mozilla sites including Bugzilla, Sync and the Mozilla Support site are currently experiencing service issues. You can check the status here.

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Restoring default about:config settings

While it is easy to make customizations via Firefox’s about:config manager, it can also be easy to really mess things up. Hence the reason Mozilla has the below warning (which replaced Be Careful,This gun is loaded! warning starting with Firefox 3) the first time you enter about:config manager. You can always change a preference back to the default by right-clicking on the preference name and selecting Reset from the context menu. This is useful if a change has borked (technical term) all or part of Firefox. But what if you have made several changes and are unsure or do not recall…

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Thunderbird Usage Survey Results

During the month of November 2011, Mozilla conducted a Thunderbird usage survey. The survey was available via link on the Mozilla Thunderbird Start Page. The results were quite interesting: More than 70% Thunderbird users are men! Please, tell your wife, daughter, partner how great Thunderbird is! Up to 90% of you use Firefox as a web browser. 65% of the respondents have 2 PCs or more and have Thunderbird on most of those PCs. +70% of respondents use either Instant Messaging or Social Network service. This is a slightly higher number than to ones measured in the industry (Forrester 2010:…

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