February 26, 2007

Weekly Update 2007-02-26

Lots of news (mostly good) from today’s Weekly Update Meeting. Fx 1.5.0.10 & 2.0.0.2 released on Thursday, February 22nd Some 2.0.0.1 users are not able to upgrade due to read-only file issues. You may need to download Fx 2.0.0.2 from getfirefox.com in order to upgrade. Users on modified builds are also having issues going to 2.0.0.2 as well. Mozilla is working on this and plans to have a fix out ASAP. Major Update now slated for may be mid/late March due to Vista integration issues. Also, testing now needs to be done for 1.5.0.10 to 2.0.0.2 Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 is still…

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Mr. Tech’s Link Wrapper

This is a very useful extension in instances where you have a long link (which you don’t want to shorten) and limited space such as within tables, forums and blogs. Firefox won’t wrap links so you end up having to scroll horizontally or in the case of my blog, links in the comments occasionally run into neighboring sidebar. The extension will automatically wraps the link on to a second (or more) line without breaking the link. Before installing this extension visit the test page and then again after installing the extension to see how it works. Note: There is a…

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Tab Groups

[digg=http://digg.com/software/Firefox_Tab_Groups] Ever find your tab bar getting congested? Too many open tabs? Having to scroll (for those of you who have not Disabled Tab Overflow) to find the tab you want? Wish there was way to organize (group) your tabs into folders? If you answered yes to any of these questions check out the Tab Groups extension. So, what does the Tab Groups extension do? Since it is a difficult concept for me to to try to explain I’ll quote the extension’s author: Tab Groups is a firefox extension that lets a user organize tabs into groups, those groups in…

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