Today, The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog turns 4! This is also our first full year since we split off Thunderbird content to our sister blog, The Email Mafia. Finally, new this year is our second author Gareon. Gareon posts Firefox news items every once in item. The Firefox stuff I really want to post but just don’t have the time to do while crashing…breaking…I mean testing Firefox builds and extensions.
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Released Last Month None Schedule This Month Thunderbird 3.1b2 – May 4, 2010 Future Releases Thunderbird 3.0.5 – TBD
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.10 – May 13, 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – May 13, 2010 Firefox 3.7a5 – TBD
Got an email from a family member in regards to their Thunderbird. They switched ISP and email providers and when their email account was setup in Thunderbird, it had its own folder structure. My first thought was the account had been setup as IMAP, but I checked on the provider’s website determined they didn’t support IMAP. I thought may be this was they way Thunderbird 3 handled POP accounts. Wouldn’t really know since I use IMAP exclusively. After a little hunting I discovered you can still have Thunderbird to deliver all the messages in your POP accounts to the Global Inbox…
JAVA seems to be a popular topic lately on this here blog. So here is another Firefox and JAVA related post for your reading pleasure. Yesterday I was helping a family member at their home with an odd issue with their Firefox 3.6 install on Windows 7. It seems they had several versions of the JAVA Console add-on installed and they could not uninstall them (‘uninstall’ button was greyed out). I am not even really sure what this extension is suppose to since I did not have this add-on installed. From what I have read it is suppose to open…
Locating your Firefox profile folder can be a bit of challenge. While assisting a family member (more on this later) the other day we discovered that with Firefox 3.6, it s very easy to get to your profile folder. From the Firefox Help Menu, select Troubleshooting Information… or in a new tab type about:support and press enter. In the new tab that opens there is a section Application Basics, click the Open Containing Folder button Click for Full Size Image
When Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 Released back in mid-March, this was the last planned update for the 2.0.0.X trunk. Mozilla Messaging confirmed yesterday that there will indeed be no further updates for Thunderbird 2. Users are encouraged to upgrade to Thunderbird 3. Source: dmose’s blog
Just Released Firefox 3.6.4 (Lorentz) BETA – April 20th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.10 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.7a5 – TBD
Below is part of an article Gareon had posted on Go Firefox! Although I live in Windows, I avoid Internet Explorer – its the Defensive Computing thing to do. My approach is the same as Steve Gibson’s, we run IE once a month to install Microsoft patches, then ignore it until next month. Not too long ago, on his Security Now! podcast, Gibson suggested further protection from IE by setting both the Internet and Intranet zones to “High” security levels. What the heck, I figured, an extra bit of safety can’t hurt. But it did hurt, and thus, this blog…
Mozilla has a released for download and testing purposes a Beta version of the upcoming Firefox 3.6.4 (Lorentz). Included in this release is the new Out Of Process Plugins (OOPP) which allows Plugins (currently Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Silverlight) to run in a separate process from the main Firefox process. With OOPP, if a plugin should malfunction and crash, only the tab(s) containing the plugin will crash instead of taking the whole browser down. Google Chrome is a browser which uses a type of OOPP technology. The public release for Firefox 3.6.4 is currently scheduled for May 4th, 2010….