Since it seems to be on a ‘weird‘ theme tonight I thought I would post this. The other night I had this comment from AI in regards to the Firefox 2.0: Close Tab Buttons post: i did this tweak before and could see all the closebuttons even when tabs weren’t in focus. but they suddenly disappeared today . I checked about:config and the value is set to 1 by default. Is it possible to get these buttons to show without rollover action? At first I thought may be it was a theme/extension conflict. So I changed the browser.tabs.closeButtons entry in…
June 11, 2007
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Okay now this is very weird (almost unnatural), Apple has released (Beta) Safari 3.0 for Windows. This use to be a Mac only browser, but now it seems Apple has wanted to get in on the “PC Browser War”. For those of you keeping track we have IE 7, Opera 9.5, Netscape Communicator 9, and Firefox 3 in addition to Safari all trying to compete to be your web browser. Percy at Mozilla Links has done a brief but ‘weird’ review of Safari. Here were his observations: It has beautiful fonts, and as it has been already said, they must…
As part of Mozilla’s on-going commitment to provide you with a safe browsing experience, meet Larry, the passport dude. He is going to part of the forthcoming Firefox 3 and a new way to verify a site’s identity (and if it is “safe”). Many people (including the humble Guru here) are misled into thinking that just because a site is identified as ‘secure’ (has the little padlock in the status or address bar) that it is also ‘safe’ As Meandering Wildly explains, the padlock only means the site has an SSL certificate, which in of itself does not make the…
Here are the highlights from today’s Weekly Update meeting: Major Update (Fx 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.4) Still only being offered to Fx 1.5.0.12 users on the “Beta (update) Channel“. Too early to tell about success at this time. Scheduled be offered to all Fx 1.5.0.12 users around June 21st Fx 2.0.0.5 Separate meeting today to discuss release scope and schedule. More details later this week or at the next update Fx 3a6 More back end work/improvements (tagging) with Places. Focus on Security Bugs as for overall security push. Larry coming soon! Gecko 1.9a6 Security Focus: Tracking 24 specific bugs with 10…