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March 2011
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Well, if that were the case why is Mozilla still doing updates? The latest version is Firefox 3.5.17 and in April they will release 3.5.18. But, upon first run after install users are presented with this screen: Also, there is no longer a link on the getfirefox.com to version 3.5 (or if there is it is well hidden). I do recall for the longest time on the Firefox 3.5 download page was an announcement that support would only be provided until August 2010. That announcement remained even after August 2010. This date as chosen for two possible reasons: This would…
Adobe has published a security advisory in response to a critical flaw found in Flash Player. The vulnerability affects Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android, and also impacts the authplay.dll component included in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X… “ More PCWorld Business Center
Mozilla has a release date listed now for Firefox 4 as March 22nd. More information as we get closer.
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…
This is a follow-up and more detailed explanation as to what I am experiencing in both Firefox 4 RC1 (Windows 7 32-Bit) and Firefox 4 Beta 13pre (Windows 7 64-Bit). I have yet to try this on my Vista/Linux system. On Firefox 4 RC1 (32-Bit) with Windows Vista the page loaded fine. I’ll check later with Linux. @jhz – you posted this comment in the prior article before I included screenshots, can you check again and let me know? I guess it won’t help you, but the said article appears totally correct with FF4 (RC), for OS X. In 64…
So it has been a little over week since I started using Firefox 4 Beta 13pre (64-Bit). This evening I was trying to read an article in Wikipedia but there appeared to be an issue with the character encoding. I switched the encoding from Unicode (UTF-8) to Western (ISO-8859-1) which fixed the issue for a moment but then reverted back to the Unicode encoding (although Western was still selected). I was going to view the page using IE Tab Plus and got the message “IE Tab Plus can only work on Microsoft Windows.”. Now, looking at the add-ons manager in…