About two year ago we wrote about how to improve the start-up performance of Firefox 3.5 (yes, that is correct Firefox 3.5). One of the tips was the use of the add-on Vacuum Places Improved. Firefox 4.0 introduced automated and better management of the Places (history and bookmarks) database. I had forgotten all about this add-on until the other day when I was going through the Wiki updating the extensions and tweaks sections for compatibility with the newer versions of Firefox. I didn’t really think much of it then, but had noticed the add-on developer did bump the extension to…
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Firefox 4 introduced the Firefox Button as a way to save space by eliminating the menu bar. The Firefox Button gives you access to a redesigned menu much like the ‘wrench’ button in Chrome. It’s a good idea but I always felt it needed some improvement. Below is a screenshot taken in the Aurora Release of Firefox 6 showing the normal layout: A couple things that bother me about the normal layout in regards to Mozilla’s theory that this would increase screen space. First, the button is huge compared to the wrench button in Chrome. Second unless the window is…
When I was setting up a test account on Linux Mint, I had no issues with Thunderbird’s account wizard in Thunderbird 3.1. However, when I tried to setup the same account in Thunderbird 5 or 7 it seemed the latest ‘improvements’ to the account wizard broke the automatic setup. Specifically the point where it attempted to verify the domain’s MX Records to get the correct server settings. I had posted about this in the Thunderbird Builds forum and was informed Bug 663971 had just been patched and to allow a couple days to hit both Miramar (Thunderbird 5) and Shredder…
Just Released Thunderbird 5 Beta (Miramar) – May 25h Thunderbird 6 Earlybird (6.0a2) – June 16th Coming Soon Thunderbird 3.1.11 – June 21st Future Releases Thunderbird 5 Final Release – July 5th Thunderbird 6 Beta – July 5th* Thunderbird 6 Final Release – August 16th Thunderbird 7 Earlybird – August 16th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See this post for more details.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.6.18 – June 21st Firefox 5 Final Release – June 21st Firefox 5 for Mobile Final Release – June 21st Future Releases Firefox 6 Beta – July 5th* Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Aurora – August 16th* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days. See this post for more details.
So after much debate the Thunderbird Planing Group has decided on new code names for Thunderbird developmental builds/channels: Daily (formerly known as Shredder or Nightly) Earlybird (equivalent to the Aurora channel/builds for Firefox). Beta Release Along with this new naming scheme comes the release of Thunderbird 6 to the Earlybird Channel. While the build itself seems to functioning fine, there are a couple branding issues that need to be fixed: What is it? On first run it opens a new tab: Welcome to Shredder! Two problems with this, first off the Shredder name has been replaced with Daily and this…
Back in January 2010 we wrote about the new Tab Preview feature in Firefox 3.6. Many of you are probably confused as you don’t recall seeing this feature. Okay, while it was introduced in Firefox 3.6, it is tucan be activated as well.rned off by default. Users have to ‘activate’ this feature by making a couple about:config tweaks. Rumors at the time was this would become active in Firefox 4.0,which it never did. It is also not active in Firefox 5.0 Beta, 6.0 Aurora or even 7.0 Nightly. For those who are not familiar with this feature here is a…
Some of you may have noticed we made a slight change to the color scheme on the FF Extension Guru Wiki. We had noticed the links were not visible and have since made them more visible. We have also made the following improvements: Search widget is now at the top of the page instead of down in the footer. Removed old Links section. Links to Browser & Clients and Open-Source Software are now in the footer. Resource page has been completely redesigned. There are now links to current, past and developmental Firefox releases. Also provided links to support forums and…
Web browsers are top targets for hackers. They’re abused in more than 90 percent of attacks meant to hit random Internet users (versus more targeted strikes), according to Kaspersky Labs. And more than half of those attacks exploit flaws in browser software and seek to install dangerous malware on computers. “Why all the attention? Because browsers are an easy target. Computer users perennially ignore update reminders and run old versions with well-known security holes. They also use ancient browser plug-ins, which aren’t as easy to update and are often rich with known vulnerabilities. As a result, a whopping 80 percent…
This morning after doling a ton of Windows Updates along with an update of the video software. After all the reboots were done, I was getting all my applications back on their correct monitors. I was working in Firefox and was noticing how crappy the display looked. At first I thought it was the most recent Nightly update for Firefox 7. So I dragged in another build of Firefox and notice the same thing. Then I noticed the ‘black border’ was back. After getting into the AMD VISION Engine Control Center (much to my amazement it launched without a hitch…