June 14, 2011

Firefox Mobile 4 – New Milestone

It was announced during Monday’s Mozilla Weekly Update meeting, Firefox Mobile 4.* has broke 1 million active Android users. Also, for those who are interested Firefox 5 Beta 4 has been released. Simply scan the bar code link below to be taken to Mozilla Firefox Mobile page. Swipe down to the Want to test the latest features? Download Beta for Android link.

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Using the ProfileManager in Thunderbird

A while ago I wrote about the ProfileManager application created by J. Griffion. This application provided a new UI to managing profiles in Firefox, but it can also do so in Thunderbird. The trick is it needs to be setup as a separate application/short-cut and passing Thunderbird as an argument.  On my Windows 7 system I have the following short-cuts: “C:\Program Files (x86)\profilemanager\profilemanager.exe” – This launches the ProfileManager  for Firefox which is default. “C:\Program Files (x86)\profilemanager\profilemanager.exe” thunderbird – This launches the ProfileManager for Thunderbird So now I am able to run multiple versions of Thunderbird at once on different profiles….

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