March 2011

Firefox Release Recap: March ’11 Week 2

Just Released Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – March 9th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.18 – To Be Announced Firefox 3.6.16 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 2 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 – April 2011

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Pixlr Grabber add-on – screen grab & online editor

“Grabbing screens and pulling images from the web just got a bit easier. With the Pixlr Grabber add-on, you can copy, save, share or even edit your final grabs – including any image or background – with just a right-click. Try out Pixlr Editor http://pixlr.com/editor Try out Pixlr imm.io http://imm.io Edit in Pixlr Editor or Express, Share them to Pixlr imm.io or save them direct to the desktop. This is a one-stop shop for screen grabs. We bring you advances and lightweight editing possibilities, guaranteed to speed up your work flow. Grab the entire page, visible part or select area…

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Firefox 4 RC1 Released

Mozilla released the first Release Candidate for Firefox 4.0 on March 9th. For more info see the release notes for Firefox 4 RC1 The next planned release is the Release Candidate (RC) 2).

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IE9 Coming March 14th, Fx 4 to follow…

…about a month later. Well, that is a guess given Mozilla is making plans for a worldwide Firefox 4 Launch Party on April 15th. While Mozilla hasn’t nailed down an official release date yet for Firefox 4, Microsoft announced today IE9 is being released next Monday, March 14th.

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Mozilla says update graphics drivers for Firefox 4

Mozilla has urged users to update their graphics cards’ drivers if they want to take advantage of Firefox 4’s hardware acceleration. Last Friday, Benoit Jacob, who works on Mozilla’s platform engineering team, spelled out why users should verify that their computers, especially PCs powered by Windows, have the latest graphics drivers. “When we turned these features on by default in nightly builds around September last year, and then in [Firefox 4] Beta 7, crash statistics and bug reports quickly showed that bugs in graphics drivers were often making these features misbehave,” Jacob said… March 7, 2011 Mozilla urges users to…

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Now Running: Firefox 4 Beta 13pre (64-Bit)

Thanks to Claus’s post over at Grand Stream Dreams, I was able to install the 64-Bit version of Firefox 4 Beta13pre for Windows. Been a while since I’ve been using the nightly builds, so this will take a little use to updating on a daily basis. One of the complications I have heard in regards to running a 64-Bit Browser on Windows is Adobe Flash does not yet support 64-Bit. However, Adobe has a developmental version called Flash Player “Square “ which enables 64-bit support. A word of advise if you already have the 32-bit version of Flash installed, you…

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Mozilla Web Application Project Debuts

Mozilla on Thursday launched a developer preview of its Web application platform, a more distributed version of what Google is doing with its Chrome Web Store.<br>”Web applications are simply Web sites with an accompanying configuration file. This file, the manifest, contains extra information necessary to install the Web app, which in some instances may make it available when there’s no network connection.<br>”Google’s Web app specification makes a distinction between installable Web apps and hosted Web apps. The former rely on Google Chrome Extension APIs and only run in the Chrome browser. The latter are simply what we know today as…

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Firefox Release Recap – March ’11 Week 1

Just Released Firefox 3.5.17 – March 1st Firefox 3.6.14 – March 1st Firefox 3.6.15 – March 4th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.18 – To Be Announced Firefox 3.6.16 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 – To Be Announced

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Thunderbird 3.1.9 Released

Mozilla Messaging has released an update for Thunderbird 3.1 on March 4th. This release addressed: Prevents a crash after update, that is affecting some users. For more information and to download see the Thunderbird 3.1.9 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 has ended! Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1

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