One feature I really like with Chrome is when opening a new tab, you are provided with Thumbnails of your recently/most visited sites to select from as seen in this Chrome screenshot. This is something that is still in development with Firefox and the developer as experimenting several ways to accomplish this. In the meantime there is Trace, an add-on which replicates the behaviour of Chrome’s new tab interface plus some other enhancements (choose from Stickies, Most Visited or Recently Visited as well as a list of recently closed tabs). The thumbnails are served by ShrinkTheWeb.com. A couple issues have…
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One of the more popular new features in Firefox 3.1 is the Private Browsing feature. Private Browsing means the sites you visit (while in Private Browsing mode) will not appear in the browser history or search history, and won’t leave other traces, like cookies. This is already a feature (Incognito) with Google Chrome browser, however unlike Chrome, Firefox’s Private Browsing works a little lot (at least when it comes to activating). Claus (Grand Stream Dreams) pointed me to the Mozilla Links article: Meet Firefox private mode… “Once confirmed, Firefox will save and close your current session and restart in Private…
Just Released No New Releases during this week. Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 2.0.0.18 – November 12th Firefox 3.0.4 – November 12th Future Release MU Firefox 2.0.0.18 >> Firefox 3.0.4 – No Earlier than November 24th Firefox 2.0.0.19 – December 16th Firefox 3.0.5 – December 16th Firefox 3.1b2 – November 21st Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – November 19th Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b1 – TBD
Back in mid October 2007, after an upgrade gone bad, I had to abandon my custom built XP system and purchase an off-the-shelf HP PC with Windows Vista Home Premium. For the most part going from Windows XP to Windows Vista wasn’t too bad. A slight learning curve on the new interface and then of course the UAC (best explained with this Get a Mac ad). One problem I did not run into was not having certain peripherals not working with Vista. Both my monitor and printer were fairly new and had a ‘Works with Windows Vista’ sticker on them….
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.3 – Status: In Planing Code freeze: November 10th November Recommended List rotation was completed last Friday. Added Fennec support to AMO API (see bug 453517) Triaged some long-standing bugs last week, and thanks to help from Tomcat we’ve made a significant dent in our overall bug count AMO Compatibility Dashboard launched. For 3.1: 58% not compatible, 14% compatible with alphas, 2% compatible with betas, 24% compatible with latest 3.1 builds FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Pending QA Code froze last Wednesday, a few days late Builds for both releases were available…
Just Released No New Releases during this week. Schedule this Coming Week No release scheduled for this coming week. Future Release MU Firefox 2.0.0.18 >> Firefox 3.0.4 – No Earlier than November 24th Firefox 2.0.0.18 – November 12th Firefox 2.0.0.19 – Mid December Firefox 3.0.4 – November 12th Firefox 3.0.5 – Mid December Firefox 3.1b2 – November 2008 Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – November 19th Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b1 – TBD
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.3 – Status: In Planing Code freeze: November 10th FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Pending Hand-off to Builds Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4 mostly froze over the weekend. Need to take one or two more patches Slipping hand off to build by a day or two (aiming for one day) Schedule Code freeze: October 24th @ 11:59 PM PDT Builds start: October 28th QA starts: October 29th Release to beta channel: November 5th Final Release: November 12th Fx 3.1b1 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1b1 – Status: Released October 14th 100k users on beta 1 (last week…
Just Released No New Releases during this week. Schedule this Coming Week No release scheduled for this coming week. Future Release Note: MU Releases development may be abandoned. On the Mozilla Wiki: Releases, for the Fx 2.0.0.18 >> Fx 3.0.4 as well as the Fx 1.5.0.12 MU show a scheduled release as TBD (maybe never?). Firefox 2.0.0.18 – November 12th Firefox 2.0.0.19 – Mid December Firefox 3.0.4 – November 12th Firefox 3.0.5 – Mid December Firefox 3.1b2 – November 2008 Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – November 19th Shredder (Thunderbird) 3a4/b1 – TBD
PC is trying to raise money to fix Vista (yes he is saying the ‘v-word’). Also think about this as you are watching this, “Just how much do they need to fix Vista?” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqcF9XowV8]
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.2 – Status: Released October 16th AMO 4.0.3 – Status: In Planing open bugs & fixed bugs Will push an intermediate update on 10/23 (Thursday) to push changes for collections (add-ons lists!) Add-on download count statistics are skewed again see bug 456687 — we’re working on this Wrapping up support for Fennec on AMO, see bug 453517 FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Pending Code Freeze Schedule Code freeze: October 24th @ 11:59 PM PDT Builds start: October 28th QA starts: October 29th Release to beta channel: November 5th Final Release: November 12th…