December 25, 2007

The Guru’s Extensions

Ellie asked on the Tweak: Add-ons ‘Install’ Button post: Could you share with us a list of your Fx extensions? 🙂 Sure, but keep in mind, this list is a lot shorter than it was back in October when my old XP system crashed. Unlike with Thunderbird, I did not port my Firefox profile over to the new machine. Here is the list as of Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:00:43 GMT via InfoLister: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12pre) Gecko/20071224 BonEcho/2.0.0.12pre Extensions (enabled: 21, disabled: 1): Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3 Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 Autocomplete Manager 2.2…

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Blog Year in Review: June 2007

June was quite the month for releases: Fx 3 Alpha 5 – Later than planned but finally saw the inclusion of Places again Netscape 9 Beta 1 – Only four months after the initial announcement (of course it helps that it is built off of Firefox 2) Flock 0.7.14 – Nothing all that special just Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Safari 3.0 Beta For Windows – How Weird! Major Update – at long last the update the allows user to go from Fx 1.5 to 2.0 automatically Whilst on the subject of Safari, I did take it for a ‘Test Drive‘. It handled…

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Fx Year In Review 2007 Edition

First off, Merry Christmas from the Guru! For those readers who were not around this time last year, I did an impromptu special feature called the Fx Year In Review. I thought it would be neat to look back and see what happened with Firefox that year, especially with the release of Firefox 2.0! I want to continue this as an annual Christmas tradition so here’s a look back at Firefox in 2007. A lot of us were hoping to see Firefox 3 come out in 2007, however given the huge complexity of Firefox 3 (especially Places) this just did…

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