There is talk of ending Windows 2000 support starting with Firefox 8. This is in part due to move to MSVC (Microsoft Visual C++) 2010 based compiler which requires Windows XP SP2 or newer OS. Firefox 8 is now on the Nightly Branch is scheduled for release on November 8, 2011. Also, there is chance 64-Bit Windows support may be coming with Firefox 8. We will post more about this as more information is released.
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While I was in Chrome over the weekend, I noticed avast! also install the WebRep add-on in this browser as well. Further, in Firefox I could only disabled the add-on, not remove. A quick Google search turned up this post in the avast! forums. To remove the Web Rep, right-click on the avast! icon in the taskbar and select Open avast! User Interface then click on the Additional Protection tab. From there select WebRep and click Uninstall next to the browsers you want to remove the plugin from within. You will need to restart the browser(s) for the plugin to…
If you find yourself not being able to add a search engine into the search bar chance are you may have a damaged search.sqlite file. In which case this ca be resolved by: Locate your Profile Folder Close Firefox From within your Profile Folder remove or rename the file search.sqlite Restart Firefox and attempt to add the new search engine again If you are still unable to add the search engine refer to this mozillaZine KB article for additional troubleshooting steps.
By default every time you reply to a message, Thunderbird adds a colored line down the sides to ‘frame’ each particular reply. This can get rather distracting after awhile. Plus it makes the overall length of the email a lot longer as the message content area gets narrower with each reply. To eliminate this, add these lines of code into your userContent.css file [directions] located within the chrome folder inside your profile folder: /*Remove reply lines*/ blockquote[type=cite] { padding-left: 0 ! important; border-left: none ! important; border-right: none ! important; }
Happy Independence Day We Will Resume Regular Posting on Tuesday, July 5th
Happy Independence Day We Will Resume Regular Posting on Tuesday, July 5th
Just Released Thunderbird 3.1.11 – June 21st Thunderbird 5.0 – June 28th Coming Soon Thunderbird 6 Beta – July 5th* Thunderbird 7 Earlybird – July 5th* Future Releases Thunderbird 6 Final Release – August 16th Thunderbird 7 Beta – August 16th Thunderbird 8 Early Bird – 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 6 Beta – July 5th* Firefox 7 Aurora – July 5th* Future Releases Firefox 3.6.19 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta – August 16th* Firefox 8 Aurora – August 16th* Firefox 7 Final Release – September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release – September 27th * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule, dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that…
In Thunderbird 3.1 when you right-clicked on an address and selected Add to Address Book it would automatically add the address into your Collected Addresses book. In Thunderbird 5.0 though the behavior has changed in now that it places the address in the Personal Address Book and the name is only the user name. However, if you double-click on the star next to the email address you will get this pop-up where you can specify the contact’s name and which address book to place the contact within.
Last week a new feature landed on the Firefox 7 Nightly Builds. Bug 665580 removes the ‘http://’ from the address bar and just displays the remainder of the URL and also omitting the trialing /. So in Firefox 7 the blog address would appear in the address bar as blog.ffextensionguru.com (the bolding of the domain name is part of the new Domain Highlighting in Firefox 6). This has seen some interesting discussions in both Firefox Builds and on Bugzilla. It appears Chrome and Opera (but not IE9) are already doing this and of course Firefox has to follow suit now….