Mozilla has a release date listed now for Firefox 4 as March 22nd. More information as we get closer.
March 15, 2011
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Via the Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog. What could possibly go wrong?
Mozilla Messaging has released the third alpha for the next generation of Thunderbird. Miramar is the code name for the new Thunderbird 3.3 which is built on the new Gecko 2 engine. New in this release: Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows Revised account creation wizard, offering improved set-up Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default and numerous other bug fixes For more details see the Release Notes. <a href=”http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/ffextensionguru/Email%20Mafia/?action=view&current=Tbirdvertical.png” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/ffextensionguru/Email%20Mafia/Tbirdvertical.png” border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket”></a>
Microsoft really needs to something about their PR Department. Via the Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog. Microsoft has apologized for a Japan earthquake tweet from its Bing team that sparked a backlash Saturday on Twitter. At 7:45 a.m., Microsoft posted the following Twitter update: @bing: How you can #SupportJapan – http://binged.it/fEh7iT. For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quake victims, up to $100K.
Okay this has been fixed now. I can now see the fonts correctly in the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Firefox 4. An oddity though is under the suggestion of Claus I did run Firefox 4 32-bit in safe mode and the page rendered fine. Now safe mode is suppose to disable all add-ons as well as bypass any custom configuration settings via userChrome.css and userContent.css (not that there were any on this particular profile) and the page loaded fine. So thinking it was a bad extension or plug-in, I started disabling them 1-by-1. With all the extensions and plug-ins…