Firefox 4 will now have a new feature available from the context menu called ‘Paste & Go’. This option is available when pasting into either the address bar or search box. As the name implies, once the content is pasted it automatically goes to the address or displays the results for the searched term. I can’t say I am all that excited about this feature. For one thing I rarely paste via the context menu. Most of the time I either paste via CTRL+V. In the cases of addresses, this is usually after I have opened a new tab. I…
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Starting with most likely the next Firefox 3.6.x update (currently scheduled for mid-October) the default set of Search Engine plugins shipping with Firefox will be changing. Microsoft’s Bing will now be included (user had to manually install this search engine plugin prior). Answers.com and Creative Commons are being removed, but can be installed manually by clicking the links here. Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia are staying put along with any other search engines the user has manually installed on their profile. New Default Search Engines installed with Firefox 3.6 Source: Mozilla Links
Just Released Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.14 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 14, 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 – November 2010
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b7 – Late September 2010 Future Release Firefox 3.5.14 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 14, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
A while back some of my family switched their ISP from Qwest to Cox. I had recently sent an email directly to one family member and they had replied back that it went to their old ISP’s email at qwest.net. I was a bit baffled that the address was still active as it had been several months since they have switched. A bounce-back would very much welcomed here. Even more baffling though was I knew I had removed their old address and put their new address in my Thunderbird address book. I just went to send them another message and…
Just Released Firefox 3.5.13 – September 16, 2010 Firefox 3.6.10 – September 16, 2010 Firefox 4.0b6 – September 14, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0b7 – Late September 2010 Future Release Firefox 3.5.14 – October 12, 2010 Tentative Firefox 3.6.11 – October 12, 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0rc1 – Mid/Late October 2010 Tentative Firefox 4.0 – November 2010
” Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP, leaving millions of PCs open to Mozilla and Google browsers providing hardware-accelerated rich-internet. Ryan Gavin, senior director of IE business and marketing, said Microsoft would not put IE9 hardware acceleration features in the current version of its browser, IE8, or back port IE9 to older PCs running Windows XP… “ 16th September 2010 Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP • The Register More http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/no_ie9_9_on_windows_xp/
Firefox 3.5.13 was released on September 16th and fixed a single stability issue affecting a limited number of users. 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. Please upgrade to Firefox 3.5 by downloading Firefox 3.5.13 from here It also appears there is going to be one more update after all. Firefox 3.5.14 is due out in mid…
Firefox 3.6.10 was released on September 16th and fixes a single stability issue affecting a limited number of users. 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… The next release is Firefox 3.6.11 due out in mid October.
Mozilla Messaging has release the fourth update for Thunderbird 3.1 based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. Also an update for Thunderbird 3.0 has also been released. According to Mozilla Developer’s News, these releases address stability problems affecting a limited number of users.” For more information and to download: Thunderbird 3.0.8 Release Notes. Thunderbird 3.1.4 Release Notes. Next up will be Thunderbird 3.0.9 and 3.1.5 on/around October 12th.