October 2008 Three new Get A Mac ads: Bake Sale – PC finds a creative way to get money to fix Vista’s problems. Bean Counter – Who says you can’t fix a problem by throwing money at it? V-Word – There’s a new naughty word and it begins with ‘V’ Just when you thought it was over the Microsoft-Yahoo merger, take over or whatever it is…any way it is back in the news. The American Technology Research indicated that it is “increasingly likely” that Microsoft would make another bid for Yahoo. Meanwhile a Yahoo investor urges Yahoo to sell itself…

Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 was released on December 30th, which was about a week earlier than scheduled. Users will be prompted for an automatic update within the next 72 hours.Those wishing to upgrade now can do so via the Help Menu, Check For Updates option or by downloading the latest release at getthunderbird.com. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 contains many security fixes and the full details can be found in the Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 Release Notes. Source: Mozilla Developer News

July 2008 In early July came the official word The Firefox 3 Download Day set a world record with 8,002,530 downloads within the 24-hour period. On July 1st, Firefox 2.0.0.15 was released. In mid-July came the first update for Firefox 3, Firefox 3.0.1 which as is regular practice was also coordinated with the release of Firefox 2.0.0.16. At the end of July, Mozilla released the first Alpha of Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko). And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon…

As I reported earlier, I was having an odd crash when I was switching into ‘Visual’ mode (or even trying to post new or edit) in the WordPress editor. After some experimenting and a whole lot of browser crashes and restarts I discovered some interesting things. Well That’s Odd I was offered another updated to latest nightly build. After I restarted I copied the build id for reference: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081224 Firefox 3/3.0.3pre ID:20081224042714. I noticed something odd earlier about that build ID, I’ll get to this later. The browser still crashed whenever I…

April 2008 April brought several add-on reviews: Abduction – an extension for taking screenshots within the Firefox browser. Domain Lookup – added a context menu item to check the availability of domain names based on the highlighted text. New Tab Homepage – when opening a new tab, your home page loads instead of a blank page. OpenDownload – adds an ‘open’ option when clicking on a download link., This feature is standard in IE and most other browsers. RetailMeNot –  automatically alerts you if the e-commerce site you are visiting has coupon/discount codes available. Three new Get a Mac ads…