July 7, 2008

Tweak: Disable Drag & Drop (Preview) Images

Note: This applies to Firefox 3 only. One of the ‘new’ features in Firefox 3 is a graphical preview of the images, text, tabs, etc. your are dragging. This was suppose to make it easier for you to see where you were dragging the item. For text it is not too bad, but for images I found the preview makes it more difficult to properly drag and drop. Good news is you can easily turn off this feature and return to the familiar ‘box’ outline for drag and drop as in Firefox 2.  To turn off this feature: In a…

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Weekly Update 2008-07-07

FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.15 – Status: Released July 1st Fx 2.0.0.16 – Status: Pending Beta Channel Release Will be released same day as Firefox 3.0.1 Current Schedule Code freeze: July 1 Builds start: July 2 QA starts: July 3 Release to beta channel: July 8 Final Release: July 15 Fx 3.0.1 – Status: Pending Beta Channel Release Will be released same day as Firefox 2.0.0.16 Current Schedule Code freeze: June 30th Bake time: July 1st Builds start: July 2nd QA starts: July 3rd Release to beta channel: July 8th Final Release: July 15 Fx 3.1a1 – Status: In Development Current Schedule…

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