An article on the Microsoft Blog reminded me of the Get a Mac: V-Word commerical from October 2008: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DHHMBIJf8] As the ‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit continues to drag on, more documents have been released. This time, documents dated around August 2005 from Windows Product Management Group advised Microsoft not to use ‘Vista’ generation name on “Home Basic”, instead only carry the Windows brand name. They also gave the same advice for the “Stater Edition” (not available in United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia or New Zealand). A quick refresher, a PC ‘branded’ as ‘Vista Capable’ meets the minimum requirements to run…
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From the Associated Press/NewYorkTimes.com: BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Friday that Microsoft’s practice of selling the Internet Explorer browser together with its Windows operating system violated the union’s antitrust rules. It ordered the software giant to untie the browser from its operating system in the 27-nation union, enabling makers of rival browsers to compete fairly. “Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between Web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice,” the E.U. said in a statement. I find this a little extreme. First off, Microsoft is not “selling” the Internet…
Just Released no new releases during the past week Schedule this Coming Week No release scheduled for this coming week Future Release AMO 4.0.5 – February 2009 Firefox 3.0.6 – February 3rd, 2009 Firefox 3.1b3 – February 2d, 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.20 – March 2009 Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b2 – TBA
Beginning in February, the tweaks section is going to be updated for compatibility with Firefox 3.1. Also appears the release date for Beta 3 has been pushed back a week now to February 2nd.
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.0.1 open bugs & fixed bugs Code freeze Jan 26 FIREFOX Fx 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update – Status: Released Released on January 8th Fx 3.0.6 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm) Does not move out final ship date of February 3 Currently 19 approved patches that need landing. Please land your patches. Schedule (Estimated) Tree opens: December 5 Code freeze: January 7 11:59pm QA (Part 1) starts: January 7, 2009 Builds start: January 19, 2009 QA (Part 2) starts: January 20, 2009 Release to beta channel:…
Back in September, I reviewed the add-on Tabs Open Relative, which had suddenly become very popular with the release of Google Chrome. The current tab behavior in Firefox is for a new (child) tab opened via a link to do so at the end of the tab bar. However both Chrome and IE8 (Beta) will open the child tab to the right of the current tab (or other child tab). New tabs opened via the new tab button, file menu or control+T will still open at the end of the tab bar. This new behavior will be included in the…
Just Released Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 – December 30th MU Fx 2.0.0.19 >> 3.0.5 – January 8th Schedule this Coming Week No release scheduled for the remainder of 2008 Future Release AMO 4.0.5 – February 2009 Firefox 3.0.6 – February 3rd, 2009 Firefox 3.1b3 – January 31st, 2009 Thunderbird 2.0.2.20 – March 2009 Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b2 – TBA
Mozilla has released the last Major Update for Firefox 2 on January 8th. Current Firefox 2.0.0.20 users will be offered a direct upgrade to Firefox 3.0.5. As a reminder Firefox 2 is no longer supported by Mozilla and also no longer has Anti-Phising protection. Users wishing to manually go to Firefox 3 may do so by downloading the current version of Firefox 3.
Firefox started crashing again when I went into WordPress ‘Visual Mode’ when composing a new post. This led me to believe that AdBlock Plus may not be the trouble. I had to end up removing AdBlock Plus add-on as well as the Adblock Plus folder within my profile folder. I thought it may had been Google Gears so I uninstalled the application and add-on from my system completely. I reinstalled AdBlock Plus, restarted Firefox and then went to load the EasyElement filter set and discovered I could not find this filter set. On EasyList was this note: List formerly known…