March 23, 2008

New Fx Releases This Week

Happy Easter Checking on the in-progress releases page this morning, it appear the Fx 2.0.0.13 security update is still on schedule for release early this week. Should have confirmation with Monday’s Weekly Update meeting. Also still on track for the end of this week Firefox 3.0b5 aka ‘may be this will be the final beta’. A quick reminder while TBird update are normally released at the same time, TBird 2.0.0.13 update has been pushed backed to April 15th. Getting back to Fx 3.0b5, if this is indeed the final Beta release then it will be a major milestone. Recall Fx…

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QuickTime Quirkiness

A couple of my pet peeves with software are applications that once installed, are very difficult if not impossible to completely remove from your system without nuking you hard drive. The other type of software is the kind that makes a mess on your system when it is installed. Case in point for this post, is QuickTime. Since I use iTunes, I have to have QuickTime on my system. I never use the QuickTime player as I use GOM Player (QuickTime videos via the QuickTime Alternative codec) for all my video player needs. So I launched iTunes which I hadn’t…

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Reader’s Comment on Review: FoxyTunes

Once in a while, The Guru gets a reader’s comment that are best addressed via a blog entry. One such comment came into The Guru earlier this weekend in regards to the Review: Foxy Tunes entry. Here is the comment in it’s entirety from zoomman: I’m fascinated. I wish you would have explained why you thought that this add on was anything but fluff. What’s the point of this bit of dross? I run WinAmp as well, the first player that Foxy Tunes lists in its list of supported players (though not listed in the list that comes with the…

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New Fx Releases This Week…

Happy Easter Checking on the in-progress releases page this morning, it appear the Fx 2.0.0.13 security update is still on schedule for release early this week. Should have confirmation with Monday’s Weekly Update meeting. Also still on track for the end of this week Firefox 3.0b5 aka ‘may be this will be the final beta’. A quick reminder while TBird update are normally released at the same time, TBird 2.0.0.13 update has been pushed backed to April 15th. Getting back to Fx 3.0b5, if this is indeed the final Beta release then it will be a major milestone. Recall Fx…

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