January 2012

How to add keyboard shortcuts to Netflix

      Keyboard shortcuts make browsing Netflix and rating movies quick and easy.    Instead of clicking on menus and navigating to the areas of your interest, why not press one key? That’s the functionality that a userscript written by Dustin Luck adds to your browser. The script states it will definitely work in Firefox, but also seems to work Chrome, Opera, and Safari without much of a hitch….” January 27, 2012 Source: How To – CNET  How to add keyboard shortcuts to Netflix    Gary      

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Thunderbird Release Update: January 28, 2012

Just Released None Coming Soon January 31st, 2012 Thunderbird 3.1.18 Thunderbird 10.0 Thunderbird 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Thunderbird 12 Earlybird (12.0a2)* Future Releases March 13th, 2012 Thunderbird 3.1.19 Thunderbird 11 Final Release Thunderbird 12 Beta (12.0b1)* Thunderbird 13 Earlybird (13.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.

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Firefox Release Update: January 28, 2012

Just Released None Coming Soon January 31st Firefox 3.6.26 Firefox 10 Final Release Firefox 10 for Mobile Firefox 11 Beta (11.0b1)* Firefox 12 Aurora (12.0a2)* Future Releases March 13, 2012 Firefox 3.6.27 Firefox 11 Final Release Firefox 11 for Mobile Firefox 12 Beta (12.0b1)* Firefox 13 Aurora (13.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See the Wiki for more details.

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Earlybird (Thunderbird 11.0a2) Currently Broken

There is a critical bug in the January 27, 2012 build of Thunderbird Earlybird (11.0a2) which is preventing the application from launching on Windows. This is believed to be the result of the check in of Bug 701371 – Rename mozutils to mozglue, and move it to top-level. A patch has been created and uploaded for the next build. Users who have already updated to the broken build will get the message below along with a Windows ‘Program Stopped Working/Responding’ message. You will need to manually reinstall Earlybird by downloading Earlybird from the Thunderbird Builds page. We will post an…

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Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics

      Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution. Linux Mint 13 will feature an entirely new user interface, called Cinnamon. Earlier this week, the Linux Mint developers released a version of the shell. Previous editions of Linux Mint used a standard version of the Gnome environment….” Source: Computerworld  Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics

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Firefox Profile Switcher Add-on

      If you are working with multiple profiles in Firefox you have probably your own ingenious way of launching them. Some Firefox users may use shortcuts to launch their profiles, others the built-in profile manager, the command line or an add-on like Switchy If you are new to the concept, I suggest you take a look at the following guides that will get you started…” Source: Ghacks Technology News Firefox Profile Switcher Add-on

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Android Native Firefox Coming Soon to Beta

Johnathan Nightingale, Sr. Director of Firefox Engineering has posted on the Future of Firefox blog describing what is involved in switching Firefox for Android UI from XML to the new Native UI. While the rapid release process from a features stand point makes sense and works, this is not the case for this change over. However, when we decided to rebuild Firefox for Android using a native UI, we recognized that the first release couldn’t ride the trains. The iterative release model that serves us so well with Firefox works best when most changes are incremental and independent. Building a…

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Change Spellcheck Language

Recently there was post in Go Firefox! in which the user had installed the British English Dictionary add-on but the spellchecker was still using the US English dictionary. There is an additional step once you have installed the new dictionary add-on and restarted Firefox. You need to tell Firefox which dictionary it should be using. While, you can install as many different dictionaries as you like (as seen in the example below), you can only use one at a given time. Right-click in a text-area Select Languages Select the Dictionary you want to use

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Load Pinned Tabs on Demand Coming

A while back I mentioned my unhappiness with a change Mozilla made in Firefox 9 with the new ‘Don’t load tabs until selected’ feature introduced in Firefox 8. For those who don’t recall the change, in Firefox 8 when this option was selected, any tab (normal or pinned) would not load until selected. Then in Firefox 9, this option only applied to normal tabs and pinned tabs would always load upon startup. Mozilla’s justification for the change was that the purpose of the pinned or app tabs was for web applications (chat, email, etc.) and therefore it would be desired…

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New ‘Downloads’ Sidebar Item

I have added links for Thunderbird, Lighting and Provider for Google Calendar to a new ‘Downloads’ section on the side bar. This sections has links for both the current and developmental versions (note: the same version of Provider for Google Calendar works with both the release and developmental versions of Thunderbird and Lightning).

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