April 24, 2010

Uninstalling JAVA Console Add-on

JAVA seems to be a popular topic lately on this here blog. So here is another Firefox and JAVA related post for your reading pleasure. Yesterday I was helping a family member at their home with an odd issue with their Firefox 3.6 install on Windows 7. It seems they had several versions of the JAVA Console add-on installed and they could not uninstall them (‘uninstall’ button was greyed out). I am not even really sure what this extension is suppose to since I did not have this add-on installed. From what I have read it is suppose to open…

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Locate Your Profile Folder Easily in Firefox 3.6

Locating your Firefox profile folder can be a bit of challenge. While assisting a family member (more on this later) the other day we discovered that with Firefox 3.6, it s very easy to get to your profile folder. From the Firefox Help Menu, select Troubleshooting Information… or in a new tab type about:support and press enter. In the new tab that opens there is a section Application Basics, click the Open Containing Folder button Click for Full Size Image

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No More Support for Thunderbird 2

When Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 Released back in mid-March, this was the last planned update for the 2.0.0.X trunk. Mozilla Messaging confirmed yesterday that there will indeed be no further updates for Thunderbird 2. Users are encouraged to upgrade to Thunderbird 3. Source: dmose’s blog

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Firefox Release Recap: April 2010 Week 4

Just Released Firefox 3.6.4 (Lorentz) BETA – April 20th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.10 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.7a5 – TBD

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