January 1, 2007

Blog Vacation

I spent most of the last couple days research, compiling and posting the Blog Year in Review posts for the past 8 months. I am going to take a short ‘blog vacation’ this week. Unless something major happens in the Mozilla world, I won’t be posting anything new until next Sunday (January 7th). Once again Happy New Years from the Guru!

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The Blog Year In Review: December 2006

December 2006, saw several blog design changes. I am happy to report that the Blog design changes are done (for now). There were new ways to “Spread Firefox” in December with the introduction of four Firefox Flicks TV commercials airing in select markets and several Firefox/Thunderbird wallpapers; Firefox 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1 & 3.0a1 along with Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 & 2.0b1 were all released; an update on the Firefox Password Manger vulnerability and what you can do to protect yourself; information about the “Improper Shut-Down” bug. In addition there were a couple posts for testers on migrating profiles and changing your update channel….

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The Blog Year In Review: November 2006

November 2006, was an unusually quiet month for the blog. All the hype and anticipation associated with IE7 and Firefox 2 were over. However, Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 were released. I added a couple minor tweaks for Firefox 2 which are not in the tweaks guide. Plus, a vulnerability in the Firefox Password Manager was exposed affecting 1.5 and 2.0 builds. All this plus some noteworthy Firefox/Mozilla news. Memory usage has been a hot topic issue with both Firefox 1.5 as well as Firefox 2. I found a couple methods to view your Firefox cache both disk and memory caches….

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The Blog Year In Review: October 2006

October 2006, the month of the browsers! The new IE7 was released, followed quickly by Firefox 2 (but not 1.5.0.8). Plus I looked at a couple of other browsers. Bunches of Firefox 2 tweaks plus a follow-up on the contest to name Mozilla Japan’s New Mascot along with Google & Microsoft news. I started off the month with a Browser Smörgåsbord, taking a look at the other browsers available for Windows. These included Netscape (also Mozilla), Opera, Flock (built on top of Firefox but NOT by Mozilla) as well as a couple developmental versions of Firefox. A quick follow up…

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The Blog Year In Review: September 2006

September 2006, was a big month for The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog. We moved to our new home on WordPress, Microsoft released (more like leaked) the prices for Windows Vista/Office 2007 plus they try to compromisers on the Windows Vista Start-up sound. Mozilla hired a former Microsoft executive and releases Firefox 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 as well as more updates to Firefox 2 Beta 2 and finally RC1. In September I tried out Yahoo Mail Beta again and found a cool extension for the regular Yahoo Mail. All this plus some unusual non-Mozilla related posts. In late August, news of Windows…

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