Articles by ElGuru

Alex Polvi’s Final Contribution

Mozillian Alex Polvi who was responsible for the Firefox Crop Circle and the Firefox 3 Robot Build fame is leaving Mozilla. However, he is not leaving without one final contribution. The Foxkeh Dance, celebrating 10 years of Hampster Dance and 10 years of Mozilla, Alex has recreated the Hampster Dance but with Mozilla Japan’s Mascot Foxeh. See The Foxkeh Dance in its full glory (Warning: turn down volume first). Source: Mozilla Links

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Updated TBird 3 Milestone Schedule

As mentioned in today’s Weekly Update Meeting, there is newly revised TBird 3 Milestone Schedule. The most noticeable about this new schedule is that does not include the final milestone, the release and the code freeze for the last build does not occur until January 2009. I was kinda hoping to see TBird 3 be released around the same time as Fx 3.1 this December, but based on this schedule this is not going to happen. Here is the current TBird3 Milestone Schedule (subject to change): 3.0b1 String Freeze — September 2, 2008 3.0b1 Code Freeze — September 9, 2008…

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Fx 2.0.0.16 >> 3.0.1 Major Update Released

Very shortly the first Major Update to Firefox 3 should start rolling out. Like any other update users should get notification within the next 24-48 hours. What it sooner? Go to Help, Check for Updates. Users will be presented with a screen similar this: Click for full-size Keep in mind this updates is optional and you are presented with three choices: select Later if you don’t want to decide now; Firefox will ask again in 24 hours select Never if you don’t want to accept this upgrade offer; we might send you another offer again in the future, but it…

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Updated TBird 3 Milestone Schedule

As mentioned in today’s Weekly Update Meeting, there is newly revised TBird 3 Milestone Schedule. The most noticeable about this new schedule is that does not include the final milestone, the release and the code freeze for the last build does not occur until January 2009. I was kinda hoping to see TBird 3 be released around the same time as Fx 3.1 this December, but based on this schedule this is not going to happen. Here is the current TBird3 Milestone Schedule (subject to change): 3.0b1 String Freeze — September 2, 2008 3.0b1 Code Freeze — September 9, 2008…

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Weekly Update: 2008-08-25

FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 MU – Status: Releasing @ 7:00 PM PDT /10:00 PM EDT  August 25th Major Update will allow current Fx 2.0.0.16 users to auto-update to Fx 3.0.1 Does NOT include ja-JP-mac builds (coming with Firefox 3.0.2) Current Schedule Final Release: August 25th Fx 2.0.0.17 & Fx 3.0.2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August 28th Release to beta channel: September 4th Final Release: September 11th Firefox 3.1a2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1a2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August…

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Release Recap: August Week 3

Just Released AMO 3.4.7 on August 21st Schedule this Week Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Major Update: Firefox 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 – August 25th 7:00 PM PDT / 10:00 PM EDT Future Release Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Firefox 2.0.0.17 – September 11th Firefox…

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AMO 3.4.7 Released

A minor update for addons.mozilla.org (AMO) was released on Thursday, August 21st.  This update fixed a handful of bugs including: Bug 450356 – Not able to add selected add-ons to Facebook page. Bug 442100 – Phoenity Thunderbird theme listed as a Firefox theme. See the complete Bug Fix List. News Source: Basil’s Bodacious Blog

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The Major Update is Coming!

That’s right, for those of you (and there are many) that haven’t upgraded to Firefox 3 yet, because it is too much trouble will be offered an automatic upgrade as early as the evening of Monday, August 25th. According to the MozillaWiki: Releases, the Major Update for Firefox 2.0.0.16 to 3.0.1 is (at this time) scheduled to land around 7:00 PM PDT/10:00 PM EDT on Monday, August 25th. However, I have my doubts about this release date, only because it is very untypically of Mozilla to do a release on a Monday. Normally everything is prepped and loaded on to…

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Tip: Unexpected installation error -203 (Add-ons)

I’ve been seeing several forum members on Go Firefox! getting the error: Unexpected installation error -203 When attempting to install extensions and/or themes. In most cases these members have recently upgraded from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 on the same profile. This error message can be caused by either: security software, which may be preventing these files from being updated corrupted configuration files on your computer 99% of the time it is going to be caused by corrupted configuration files on your computer. To fix this problem follow these steps: Close Firefox Locate your Profile Folder Delete the following files…

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