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Thunderbird 3.0 Support Ending

Support for Thunderbird 3.0 will be ending with the release of Thunderbird 3.0.10 later this year. See Sunset Plan Announcement For Thunderbird 3.0.x for more details.

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That Ain’t Right!

The other day I had a customer who’s site would not load in Internet Explorer. It would load in Firefox, but Internet Explorer would just choke and given an usual error saying it could not load the site. At first I thought may be it was a time-out issue as I could not duplicate on our internal network. Then the customer told me they tried to load their site at their local library and with Internet Explorer with the same results. I took a look at the site on the computer we have that is not connected to our internal…

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No Firefox 4 Beta 7 Yet

While Mozilla did push out releases of updates for both Firefox 3.5 (likely the last) and Firefox 3.6 on October 19th, there still no word on when Firefox 4 Beta 7 is going to be released. Also, looks like Mozilla is going to miss the target for an October release of Firefox 4 Release Candidate 1 as originally projected.

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Thunderbird 3.0.9 & 3.1.5 Released

Mozilla Messaging has release the fifth update for Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. Also an update for Thunderbird 3.0 has also been released. These releases address stability and security issues. See the release notes below for more information. For more information and to download: Thunderbird 3.0.9 Release Notes. Thunderbird 3.1.5 Release Notes.

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Firefox 3.5.14 Released

Firefox 3.5.14 was released on October 19th and fixed several security issues and stability issues. See the Release Notes for more information. Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going to Help menu and selecting Check For Updates. If you’re still using Firefox 3.0.x, this version is no longer supported and may contain security vulnerabilities. IMPORTANT! This is likely the final update on the Firefox 3.5 builds.

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Firefox 3.6.11 Released

After several delays, Firefox 3.6.11 was released on October 19th and fixed several stability and security issues. See the release notes for more details. User should soon be prompted to upgrade but can also can by going to the Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates…

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Our New Home

Welcome to our new home. We have moved the Email Mafia Blog off of WordPress.com on to our own server. Please be sure and updated your bookmarks and feeds.

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New Mozilla CEO and Firefox Updates

The big news this week is after six months of searching, Gary Kovacs, former general manager and vice president of mobile and devices at Adobe, and employee of IBM for ten years, has been appointed as the next Mozilla Corp. CEO. Mozilla Corp. former CEO John Lilly explained why Kovacs was the most ideal replacement: We’ve talked with many people through this process — most of them were exceptionally talented in many ways. But Gary’s a special person for the CEO role, and here’s why: He’s a veteran of the Web and rich media — he’s been at the center…

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Firefox Release Recap October 2010 Week 2

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.14 – October 19, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 19, 2010 Tentative Future Release Firefox 4.0b7 – 2nd Half of September behind schedule Firefox 4.0rc1 – 2nd Half of October behind schedule Firefox 4.0 – TBA

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Hail Of A Storm

On Tuesday, October 5 the Phoenix area got hit with a monster of storm, which included hail. The title is bit of play-on-words and I got the idea for the title earlier today when I heard a radio commercial for Courtesy Chevrolet. They are currently having a ‘Hail of Sale’ with price reductions on all the vehicles damaged by this week’s hail storm. Hail storms are fairly rare out here. In the 17-years I’ve lived in Arizona I’ve experienced 3 hail storms. Hail on Balcony It seems as if this storm was worse than the ones we had in January….

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