June 22, 2008

Firefox 3 Themes

From top to bottom: Vista, Linux, Mac, XP: CyberNet News put together the above collage of the four Firefox 3 themes as part of their Firefox 3 Review. Personally, I didn’t care for the new Firefox 3 Vista Theme.  Just a bit plain with the blue back and forward buttons against the light blue background. Even the home page icon is a bit bland as well. The good news is you can use any of the four themes by clicking on the desired link below. A couple notes, first switching between the XP or Vista Themes only changes the button…

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Moving Bookmarks Fx3 to Fx2

As I have discovered once you load your Firefox 2 profile into Firefox 3, it is not going to work correctly again in Firefox 2.  You will need to start a new profile if you want to go back to Firefox 2. You can however bring back over your bookmarks to Firefox 2. Backup Bookmarks in Firefox 3 In Firefox 3 go to the Bookmarks Menu and select Organize Bookmarks This will open the Library window.  From here click on Import and Backup then select Export HTML.. You will be prompted to select a location to save the bookmark list….

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Release Recap: June Week 3

Firefox 2.0.0.15 – Delayed to July 1st. A re-spin to Code Freeze occurred on Friday, June 20th. Builds and QA should start on Monday with a release to Beta by Wednesday, June 25th. Firefox 3 Final – Released on June 17th with nearly 17 Million downloads. See the latest stats here. Firefox 3.1 – Preliminary draft released in early June.  First Alpha due out in mid July with final release by year end. Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 – No determined release date at this time due to delay of Firefox 2.0.0.15 release. Thunderbird 3.0a2 – Tentatively scheduled for release sometime towards the…

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