Earlier this week I had instructed in my Fixed Broken Feed Subscriber entry: To add our feed to Firefox’s Bookmark Toolbar simply click the RSS icon in the address bar. Unfortunately this does not work because I am having my custom domain (ffextensiongurublog.info) forwarded to my WordPress blog. Because I am doing this, Firefox and other browsers are not able to automatically detect the feed. To subscribe to the feed simply click on the link in the sidebar below the Subscribe Now header. Depending on how your browser handles XML feeds one of two things will happen: A new tab/window…
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In the Installing Add-ons in TBird entry, I put together a very comprehensive step-by-step list to install add-ons. All along I was think ‘there has to be a simpler way to do this.’ Well, there is according to this comment from CHR: As far as I know, one could still drag & drop the extension from firefox to the thunderbird add-ons manager window to install the extensions right away. Okay it cain’t be that simple, can it? Well I decided I would test this out and install Lightning (which I am still having trouble saving events/to-do tasks) via this method….
This week’s meeting has brought a lot of big news and not just the usual Firefox/Thunderbird. Firefox/Thunderbird Builds TBird 1.5.0.13/Fx 2.0.0.5 – Code freeze scheduled for this Friday (07/13) with a targeted release date of 07/31. TBird 3 – Begin phasing out the old Talkback on this weeks trunk builds. Will be replaced with Breakpad Fx 3.0 – Alpha 6 released on July 2nd [Release Notes]. First Beta release on the Fx 3 branch was slated for 07/31. However there is now going to be an Alpha 7. Code freeze is scheduled for 07/25 with ship date of 7/31. See…
Mozilla is currently auctioning off a couple MacBook Pro’s, one [eBay item 170128089933] has a laser etched Firefox logo similar to the picture here. This is being done to promote the newly launched Mozilla Firefox eBay Edition, a special Firefox 2 release bundled with the Firefox Companion for eBay, an extension that allows users to track watched and selling items. Also, 100% of the final sale price will support Computer Aid International. At time of this posting the bidding was at $2856. News Source: Mozilla Links
This is one of those ‘I wonder how long it was broken?’ kinda things. It seems my custom Subscribe Now! widget was broken. Now when you click on the RSS logo in the sidebar (under the Subscribe Now header) depending on how your browser handles feeds it will either: A new tab/window will open to FeedBurner where you can subscribe to the feed with a web based news reader. OR In the case of Firefox 2.0, you will given the option to add a Live Bookmark. To add our feed to Firefox’s Bookmark Toolbar simply click the RSS icon in…
In the Installing Add-ons in TBird entry, I put together a very comprehensive step-by-step list to install add-ons. All along I was think ‘there has to be a simpler way to do this.’ Well, there is according to this comment from CHR: As far as I know, one could still drag & drop the extension from firefox to the thunderbird add-ons manager window to install the extensions right away. Okay it cain’t be that simple, can it? Well I decided I would test this out and install Lightning (which I am still having trouble saving events/to-do tasks) via this method….
I stumbled across this Wikipedia article earlier this week while doing some other research on Netscape. I thought this was interesting… Netscape Mercury is a standalone e-mail and news client in development by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007, the program is intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and is based on Mozilla’s Thunderbird. The software is named after the ancient Greek god Mercury, the messenger. It replaces the former Netscape Mail & Newsgroups client included in versions 4 to 7.2. I guess Netscape is trying to get back to the all-in-one web browser, instant messenger, e-mail…
Currently, Thunderbird does not have the automatic XPI installs like Firefox does for add-ons. This presents a problem to many Thunderbird users who have grown accustom to the simple install process in Firefox. Clicking the Install Now button/link will cause Firefox to attempt to install the add-on in itself. This is not a good thing, especially if the add-on is not designed for Firefox. I have been hearing that the future (late 2007/early 2008) Thunderbird 3 is going to make installing add-ons simpler. Until then you will need to follow a few steps. These steps may seem a bit complicated…
Note: This entry was published on July 7th under the title FEBE: New Version, New Name. For whatever reasons the entry had problems as I discovered when I went back into shrink the images. I was not able to save any changes, it would just revert back to what it was prior to editing. At the beginning of the month, FEBE went from being known as the Firefox Extension Backup Extension to the Firefox Environment Backup Extension. There were also lots and lots changes (see complete Change List on the extension page) with this new version via the options menu….
Just did minor tweaks with a couple of the categories/tags. Both the Add-ons and Tips & Tweaks categories/tags use to be child level under Mozilla Firefox. Since these two categories/tags are not just limited to Firefox I have made them their own primary categories/tags. The articles which were marked with these categories/tags remains unchanged.