New with Firefox 4 Beta 7 was out with the Status Bar and in with the ‘Add-on Bar’. So, what’s the difference? Other than the name, nothing really. Oh yea, the status bar add-ons bar now has a ‘close button’ so you can easily hide it. To re-activate either right-click on the navigation or tab bar and select Customize… then choose Add-on Bar. Else activate the menu bar via the Alt key and select View >> Toolbars then select Add-on Bar. ETA: Several more things, there is no longer a progress bar. There is no ‘status’ reports (loading, waiting, Done,…
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Part of the big changes with Firefox 4 is a newly designed Add-Ons manager and user interface (UI). Some observations: First off, the add-ons manager now opens in a tab instead of separate window. The manager itself is wider now as the menu options are down the side instead of along the top. Because of the width, trying to use the Add-Ons Manager in Sidebar tweak is not going to be very useful. You must still restart whenever adding/removing or disabling/enabling add-ons. Mozilla has finally ‘un-hidden‘ the option to install add-ons via a file (gear button next to the add-ons…
Just Released Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 – January 14, 2011 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.17 – February 8th Firefox 3.6.14 – February 8th Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – TBA Firefox 4.0 – TBA
Was finally ready to start working with Firefox 4 on my new Windows 7 computer. Went to download Firefox 4 Beta 8 and was offered Firefox 4 Beta 9. Mozilla released the ninth beta for Firefox 4.0 on January 14th. This is a regular beta release and is being made available for testing purposes only. New stuff in this Beta 9 release: Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations See the complete changelist from the previous beta For more info see the…
Whilst trying to find more information about Thunderbird 3.3 Miramar, I came across the Mozilla Labs blog and an experimental add-on unofficially called Account Provisioner. A little background, it seems about 2/3 of the people who download Thunderbird are expecting to get an email address with it. Interesting, so the majority of people assume Thunderbird is an email client and provider. Doesn’t make much sense to me, but then I am use to having an email client and using it with an either an ISP provided email address or a corporate related email address. I would not have thought have…
The release of Thunderbird 3.0.11 in December marked the end of support for the Thunderbird 3.0 branch. Users should upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1 to ensure they get regular updates.
With the great success I have had converting the Firefox Extension Guru’s Sites over to WordPress I’ve opted to redo the Email Mafia sites as well. As you can see, the blog has already been redone and cleaned up. Just waiting on the new database to setup so I can redo the main Email Mafia site.
I should know better than to try to make hosting changes over a weekend. Everyone else, so things that should normally go through say in a couple hours take a lot longer. I checked earlier and saw ffextensionguru.info was now showing the new blog so I decided to check blog.ffextensionguru.com. Well what da ya know it works! I also was able to have all traffic which went to the old ffextensionguru.wordpress.com URL automagically redirected to the new blog (for $12 a year). This is also good for SEO as well as the tons of links I have out on forums….
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.17 – February 8th Firefox 3.6.14 – February 8th Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – TBA Firefox 4.0 – TBA
Came across the story ‘AP: Microsoft’s answer to the iPad is still in pieces‘, earlier this morning via The Microsoft Blog. Not very good PR for Microsoft: The Associated Press writes: “Instead of unveiling an elegant response to the iPad, Microsoft came to the tech industry’s premier gadget show with a collection of exposed computer guts. … Microsoft’s missing tablet served as a reminder that the world’s largest software maker remains years from a serious entry into this new category of devices. It also raised more doubts about whether Microsoft Corp. will ever be able to grab a meaningful piece…