If you have ever thought about building a Fx Extension, here is a comprehensive guide that can help you not just build an extension, but one that will get used. The Developing a Firefox Extension That People Actually Use: 32 Essential Tools and Tutorials is very informative (but not overwhelming) with most of the steps containing external links. The opening paragraph sums it up well.. Over the past few years, Mozilla Firefox has dramatically increased in popularity, largely because of its ability to incorporate extensions. The extensions developed for Firefox range from simple calculators to complete application replacement, and their…
July 2007
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Here are the details of today’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx/TBird 2.0.0.5 – Updates released last week. Fx 2.0.05 released on Tuesday, July 17th and TBird 2.0.05 released on Thursday, July 19th. TBird 1.5.0.13/Fx 2.0.0.6 – Meeting to be held later Monday to discuss scope and schedule Fx3: Larry, (the passport dude) should land by freeze new location bar display Protocol/content handling protocol handling new dialog should make M7 content-handling is not going to make Fx3 Password manager Numerous regression fixes non-modal save password prototype together, hopefully will land by freeze Places Sync working with http auth/webdav Heavy focus on UI…
From Mozilla Developer News: If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu starting later today. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 Release Notes. The security vulnerabilities addressed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 do not affect Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users, therefore, there is no update required for Thunderbird 1.5.0.x series users.
The social networking site, Facebook has bought Parakey for an undisclosed amount. For those of you not familiar with Parakey it was the joint venture project by Firefox Founders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, see The Firefox Kid for more about Parakey. I was not too sure what to make of this at first. This has been an ongoing project for Ross & Hewitt for quite some time. But as I read further into the article this isn’t one of those ‘buy-out’ type of acquisitions where everything is sold and the original party just walks away from the project (but…
From Mozilla Developer News: If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu starting later today. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 Release Notes. The security vulnerabilities addressed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 do not affect Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users, therefore, there is no update required for Thunderbird 1.5.0.x series users.
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.5, a security upgrade. From mozillaZine.org: Firefox 2.0.0.5 includes a fix for firefoxurl:// security exploit, which allows an attacker to use Microsoft Internet Explorer to trick Firefox into executing malicious code. Whether Firefox or IE is responsible for the flaw has been a matter of debate over the past week. The Mozilla Foundation security advisory about the firefoxurl:// issue maintains that it’s a problem in IE and notes that other applications could be exploited in the same way. Others have argued that it’s Firefox’s responsibility to vet incoming data (something 2.0.0.5 now does). You should…
Well, the big-wigs at Microsoft are at it again. As if tracking cookies weren’t bad enough, Microsoft has recently filed a patent that would ” look at what’s on your hard drive and serve you targeted advertisements based on that data.” The patent application notes that the software in question could be a part of Windows or a stand-alone app: An advertising framework may reside on a user computer, whether it’s a part of the OS, an application or integrated within applications. Applications, tools, or utilities may use an application program interface to report context data tags such as key…
We can’t even rely on our own government to backup the Internet…. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vDClhnJjs]
Here are the details of today’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx/TBird 2.0.0.5 – Firedrill Release due a critical security bug (cross browser scripting). Also a regression was found in Fx 2.0.0.5RC1 resulting in a re-spin. Currently testing Fx 2.0.0.5RC2, updates available soon for testing. Possible release this Thursday (07/19) but TBird could be released Friday or following week. Fx3: Places team focused on UI (details) Download manager spec complete Ongoing design discussions in d-a-f AddOns specs in progress, Madhava and Rob Strong leading that work More plans to be posted this week about visual refresh M7 freeze next week, m8 is…
The next milestone in the Netscape 9.0 series, Beta 2 was release late last week. Netscape 9.0 is based off of Firefox 2.0.0.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070710 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b2). I have used Netscape 8 in the past and had found it to be very unstable, so I was not sure what to expect with Netscape 9. I played with it for a couple hours this morning and much to my surprise it was very stable (never even crashed 🙁 ), even on Delphi Forums where some ads would cause Netscape 8 to crash. Being Netscape…