Thanks to everyone who has commented about the new theme and layout. Based on these comments I have made a couple more tweaks. The old ‘Featured Links’ section use to have ‘buttons’ for all the browsers and some of the blogs. People commented those did not look so great with the rest of the blog. Well, I have to agree the ‘buttons’ were all different sizes and just too big. I have removed all the linked images. Also recategorized the ‘Featured Links’ into either ‘Blogs’ or ‘Internet & Browsers’. I have also added a link to FileZilla, a fast and…
December 2006
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Thanks to Google Automatic Translation feature, I am pleased to announce the Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog is now available in these additional languages: Arabic* Simplified Chinese* French German Italian Japanese* Korean* Portuguese Russian* Spanish * Translation feature for these languages are still in BETA stage and may not yet be fully functional.
Once again I have changed the Blog’s theme and layout. This new theme is called Garland and also a three column design, but the content in is the center. Since this theme allows me to choose my own colors I had a chance to try out a cool color scheme finder. Ryan at CyberNet used this site: HTML Colour Code Combination Chooser, when he redid the CyberNet Blog around Thanksgiving. Couple other minor changes, the About The Guru and Disclaimer links are now in the header and some of the Feature Links graphics had to be changed due to size…
Today Mozilla has released three major updates (postponed from December 14th): Firefox 1.5.0.9, likely to be the last release on the 1.5 builds. Remember, all support for the 1.5 builds will end on April 24, 2007. Firefox 2.0.0.1, 183 bug fixes including (but not limited too): Crashes (42), Memory Leaks (3), Regressions (41) and Privacy Related (4). Thunderbird 1.5.0.9, 7 bug fixes* including: Build Configuration (2), Functionality (2), Spellchecker (1), Mac-specific (1) and Miscellaneous (1) Auto-updates should start kicking in later this evening. If you want to update sooner visit getfirefox.com (note: at time of press, Mozilla has not yet…
If I could put together an extension suite, I would create a Tweaking/Troubleshooting Suite which would include four very useful extensions; about:config, ChromEdit Plus, Infolister and Nightly Tester Tools. I will go into a brief summary of each of these extensions below. For more detailed information, click on the extension name. about:config – adds toolbar icon to open ‘about:config’ in a medium size pop-up window. Very handy as you don’t have to keep switching between tabs (twek directions are in one tab and ‘about:config’ is in another). ChromEdit Plus – automatically locates and allows you to edit your (based on…
The next Thunderbird 2 milestone, Beta 1 was released earlier this week. The final release is still a couple months away (first quarter 2007). Here are the new features for Thunderbird 2.0b1: Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email. Visual Theme:Thunderbird 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability. Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history. Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite,…
The next Thunderbird 2 milestone, Beta 1 was released earlier this week. The final release is still a couple months away (first quarter 2007). Here are the new features for Thunderbird 2.0b1: Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email. Visual Theme:Thunderbird 2’s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability. Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history. Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite,…
For those of you eagerly waiting today to download the new Firefox 1.5.0.9 or 2.0.0.1, you will have to wait a few more days. From the Firefox 1.5.0.9-2.0.0.1 Community Page, the new (tentative) release date is Tuesday, December 19th.
As we near the release of the first major update for the Firefox 2 build (and the last for the 1.5 build) I still have people asking about Firefox 3. Mainly what is going to be different and new with Firefox 3. Our buddy Ryan over at CyberNet News has compiled quite the list (with links) of the possible Firefox 3 features. Some of the big ones of course are going to be: Places Acid 2 Compliance (Alpha 2 & nightly releases) Cairo rendering engine Double-decker tab bar (anything gotta be better than that horrible Tab Overflow feature) The next…
I have heard many folks do not like the inline spellcheck feature with Firefox 2 (personally I cain’t use Firefox without it). Many people like the ‘classic’ Spellbound which would allow you to check spelling when you wanted to in a separate window. While it may be possible (with a lot of work-arounds) to get the ‘classic’ Spellbound to work with Firefox 2, there is a simpler solution…Spellbound-II, a resurrection of sorts of the classic Spellbound 0.7.3 extension. This is from the same developer who created the new ChromEdit Plus Notes: Extension only supports the en-US dictionary Remove ALL prior…