From about:mozilla, a purposed idea to the way add-ons updates will be handled with the future Firefox 5. Jennifer Boriss has an idea for Firefox 5 that will give users some flexibility. She writes: “The user begins with completely automatic updates on by default. By switching to manual updates in the advanced menu, the user can go back to installing updates themselves. Each add-on shows, in its detailed pane, whether it receives updates automatically or manually.” Feel free to leave a comment or thought for her.
February 2011
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From the about:mozilla, a noticeable improvement with Firefox 4/ Improvements to Firefox 4′s spell checker Ehsan Akhgari writes about important changes to the spell checker in Firefox, namely that the newly patched spell checker will work with hyphenated words (it does not currently) and will work with words up to 130 characters long (current limit is 64.) As the spell checker is probably one of the features of Firefox that we all use unconsciously, this is a very welcome addition.
Just Released Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 – February 8th Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.17 – February 14th Firefox 3.6.14 – February 14th Future Release Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 – To Be Announced
A nice extension very handy for comic strip sites (or even forums where people don’t know how to properly rotate and image before they post it). Once installed, simply right-click the image and select Rotate Image (CW) or Rotate Image (CCW) from the context menu. Rotate Image is 37 KB works with Firefox 1.5-4 and does require you to accept an EULA.
I’ve been debating about posting this for the past couple weeks since I first learned about the possibility of the profile manger being removed “after Firefox 4”. The reason I’ve been so hesitant on this post is because this ‘bug‘ (technical term, though more of a rumor) has been around since July 31, 2003 back when Firefox was Firebird. There was off-and-on chatter about this until the end of December 2009 when there since has been solid discussion about this. This would have been about the time Mozilla was getting ready to release Firefox 3.6 and the start of the…
I knew I had posted about Firefox in 2010, as it turns out it was at the end of 2009. Okay so for 2010 Mozilla planned to release:
Well sort of. Back then it was being called “Mozilla Developers Preview (1.9.3 alpha)”. The odd naming was due to this being a preview of the new Gecko 1.9.3 rendering engine and what likely would have become Firefox 3.7 (Firefox 3.6 runs on Gecko 1.9.2.x) . There were a total of five Alpha releases between February and June 2010. Then it was decided to scrap Firefox 3.7 as well as Gecko 1.9.3 and move everything on to Gecko 2.0 and then also start labeling the releases as Firefox 4 Beta in July 2010. So, here we are 1-year later and…
awer commented on the Firefox 4 Beta 11 Released post: I like that the new connection status messages are now in a overlay on the bottom. It is very good, they are only there when needed. I was not aware of this new update with Beta 11 as I learned the Status-4-Evar extension overrode that behavior. Once I disabled Status-4-Evar and restarted I was able to see what the commenter was talking about. While a page is loading you will get an overlay of the loading status just above the add-ons bar. This is similar to the behavior of Chrome…
Mozilla has pushed back the updates scheduled for today for Firefox 3.5 and 3.6. The new (tentative) release date is now February 14th. Yep, Valentine’s Day and a Monday no less.
Mozilla released the eleventh beta for Firefox 4.0 on February 8th. This is a regular beta release and is being made available for testing purposes only. New stuff in this Beta 11 release: Support for the proposed Do Not Track (“DNT”) header Connection status messages are now shown in a small overlay WebGL has been re-enabled on Linux The default homepage design has been refreshed Firefox no longer switches into offline mode automatically See the complete changelist from the previous beta For more info see the release notes for Firefox 4 Beta 11. The next planned release is the Beta…