Last week I reported in my IE7: October 18th? entry via CyberNet News, one Microsoft Blogger had said IE7 was to come out on October 18th. Well, thanks to an alert reader at Go Firefox!, I have learned, the blogger has removed all references to the October 18th release date. However, I did notice this particular item still remained in the article: “Microsoft recommends that enterprises are prepared for automatic delivery by November 1st“ So it sounds like the delivery via automatic updates is still on for the first part of November. But what about releasing to the Microsoft website…
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Not sure when this feature was added but once in a while I noticed while I was on a certain site the Goggle logo on my search bar would glow blue (see below). After some reading on mozillaZine Firefox Builds forum I found about that this interesting feature in the thread: Blue glow on Google dropdown “The glow is there to indicate that the page you’re visiting has it’s own search engine. If you click on the search engine dropdown you’ll notice the “Add search engine…” dialog for you current page.” While I was on Wikipedia, I noticed the Google…
One of my favorite extensions from back in the Firefox 1.0.* build days was ChromEdit. Unfortunately, when Firefox 1.5 came out that extension was broken and the developer never made a newer version. I am not sure but I think I had tried to force it to work with Nightly Tester Tools without luck. Someone had come out with a newer version for Firefox 1.5 builds (and this may be the newer version). Today I came across ChromEdit Plus which has the same features as the original ChromEdit and some others: Edit userChrome.css, userContent.css & user.js files Open Profile Folder,…
In my Nightly Tester Tools entry I talked about using this extension with Firefox. The newest version 1.2 works with Firefox 2.0b1-3.0a1 plus Thunderbird 2.0pb1 (pre-beta)-3.0a1 and SeaMonkey (former Mozilla Suite browser) 1.5a. The installation for Thunderbird is a little more complicated since it doesn’t do the automatic XPI install like Firefox: Go to the Nightly Tester Tools site On the bottom right of the page RIGHT-CLICK on the Install Latest Version button Select from the context menu ‘Save Link As…’ Keep the default file name (nightly-1.2.xpi), but save it to the desktop Minimize Firefox Toggle to Thunderbird From the…
Firefox 3 Users: This tweak does not work with Firefox 3 as the Go Button has been removed now. With the new default theme for Firefox 2 there is not a ‘simple’ way to remove the ‘Go’ Button from the navigation toolbar. I never used the go button since I simply press enter after I type in address. This will make your address box a little bigger as well. There a couple ways you can remove the Go Button either via about:config or modifying your userChrome.css file. about:config method Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar…
In my Nightly Tester Tools entry I talked about using this extension with Firefox. The newest version 1.2 works with Firefox 2.0b1-3.0a1 plus Thunderbird 2.0pb1 (pre-beta)-3.0a1 and SeaMonkey (former Mozilla Suite browser) 1.5a. The installation for Thunderbird is a little more complicated since it doesn’t do the automatic XPI install like Firefox: Go to the Nightly Tester Tools site On the bottom right of the page RIGHT-CLICK on the Install Latest Version button Select from the context menu ‘Save Link As…’ Keep the default file name (nightly-1.2.xpi), but save it to the desktop Minimize Firefox Toggle to Thunderbird From the…
One of my favorite extensions from back in the Firefox 1.0.* build days was ChromEdit. Unfortunately, when Firefox 1.5 came out that extension was broken and the developer never made a newer version. I am not sure but I think I had tried to force it to work with Nightly Tester Tools without luck. Someone had come out with a newer version for Firefox 1.5 builds (and this may be the newer version). Today I came across ChromEdit Plus which has the same features as the original ChromEdit and some others: Edit userChrome.css, userContent.css & user.js files Open Profile Folder,…
About four years ago this month my hard drive crashed. At that time I was running Windows 98 and decided since I was going to have to start from scratch anyway why not get Windows XP. After I brought the computer back home from the shop, I discovered the current system hardware could not handle Windows XP. So I ended up returning to the shop and getting a whole new motherboard, AMD processor, Video Card and a lot more RAM to go along with the new hard drive that they had installed (with Windows XP) a couple days earlier. Got…
From CyberNet News: “According to one of Microsoft’s bloggers the release date for Internet Explorer 7 appears to be October 18th.For those of you grabbing for your calendar I’ll let you know that it is next Wednesday…a day after Mozilla plans on shipping Firefox 2 RC3.” Again, this for those who go to Microsoft’s website, download and install IE7 themselves. Installation via automatic update starts in two weeks on November 1st. Don’t want IE7 automatically installed on your machine? Cain’t say I blame y’all, luckily there is an easy way to Disable the IE7 Automatic Install. Important: If you are…
With the code freeze for Firefox 2.0 RC3 now in effect, I did some checking on the Mozilla Developer’s Calendar and noticed an estimated ‘ship’ date for RC3, Tuesday, October 17th. Also on this same date is this interesting item: Fx2 – Launch Dependencies Due! Still no official date listed on the calendar for the big Firefox 2 release. I am guessing though it is still set for October 24th. I base this loosely on the fact there are no more Bon Echo Status meetings after this date. BTW, in case you have been following the calendar and are wondering,…