I don’t use the toolbar but I do use this and it may come in handy for those who do.I didn’t realize how many services Google had. Display all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving dropdown menu next to your address bar or anywhere you like it. Reach services like Gmail, Google reader, Google maps, Google calendar, and many more in a single click from your browser. Google has canceled its toolbar for the current and future versions of Firefox, and Mozilla is scrambling to help users who might be left in the lurch and postponing their browser upgrades…”…
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Mac users. …his home page had been changed to comcast.net, and that the Comcast software had modified his Firefox profile so that there was no way to change the home page setting.“I contacted Comcast; they initially blamed the problem on a bug in Firefox. Mozilla denies this, and says it’s Comcast’s doing”, says the security researcher in his latest posting.“This is NOT a Firefox bug or issue”, a Mozilla spokesperson wrote in an email. “It is a Comcast method that applies preference changes to Firefox.”“Comcast has now acknowledged the issue, says Krebs, adding that the problem is limited to Mac…
Mozilla did an emergency update for Firefox 3.6 & 5.0 on July 11th. There was an automatic update for Mac user only. While Mozilla did also publish Firefox 3.6.19 and 5.0.1 to the FTP site as well as at getfirefox.com for Windows and Mac users, there is no difference between Firefox 3.6.18/3.6.19 or 5.0/5.0.1 for Linux and Windows users. Therefore, an automatic update was not pushed out for Windows and Linux users. If for whatever reason you would like to update to Firefox 3.6.19 or 5.0.1 and are using Windows or Linux, you will need to so manually via getfirefox.com…
Goals for multi-process firefox “Since the release of Firefox 4 we’ve been working again to bring multi-process content support to Firefox. I thought that it would be good to write a post to try to lay out some of the reasons why we’re doing this. Although it might be obvious to many people, it’s good to actually lay it out on paper so that we have a clear understanding of why we’re doing something. It helps us determine what to prioritize as well as helps us measure when we’re ready to ship….” Source: Blog Mozilla More http://blog.mozilla.com/products/2011/07/15/goals-for-multi-process-firefox/
Mozilla has pushed out Beta 2 for Firefox 6 on the Beta channel. If you are already using Firefox 6 Beta 1 go to Help > About Firefox to update to Beta 2. Otherwise you may obtain Firefox 6.0b2 from the Future of Firefox page. Firefox 6.0 is scheduled for final release on August 16th, 2011.
Some progress to report on the future of Win64-Bit Firefox as reported on CNET News Deep Tech. Release engineer Armen Zambrano Gasparnian, who took early steps for 64-bit Firefox support last year, is on the case again. “We now have a small set of Windows 2008 64-bit slaves ready to be put in our production systems that can generate the 64-bit version of Mozilla Firefox,” he said in a blog post this week. He’s been filing bug reports as a result. Even better news is Adobe Labs has a Beta Release of Flash Player 11, which now supports Win64-Bit. However,…
This is two paragraphs of a long article. He mentions flash cookies which you can get rid of. Last month, the British advertising giant WPP boasted that it had just created the world’s largest database of individuals’ online behaviour: profiles of 500 million people, covering, it says, almost 100 per cent of the people online in the countries in which it operates, including the UK, the US, Australia and eight others. The firm said it was pooling data from many of the world’s major websites and networks of online advertisers and adding it to information purchased from traditional market-research firms…
Lot of stuff available with this. I had no idea there were this many services available.I’ve only just started tweaking it but am liking it already for the easy access to my Google site and mail. Display all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving dropdown menu next to your address bar.Reach services like Gmail, Google reader, Google maps, Google calendar, and many more in a single click from your browser.” Works with Firefox 2.0a1 – 6.* Google Shortcuts – All Google Services at a glance :: Add-ons for Firefox Go get it.
One fix is relatively simple. I set mine at 10. http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/25/reduce-firefox-memory-consumption/ Go get it.
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….