This morning I opened my Thunderbird to find an alarming comment on the Adobe Acrobat vs Foxit Reader article. UHammerIT wrote: Capitalism Killed The FOXit reader And yet another one bites the dust. Foxit Reader is no longer a free product. O yeah, sure you can get a one year license for free if you buy something else (where they get 50% commission on the sales). Wonderful. I hardly blame them, they are developers and need money, but at least they could make their 2.0 version open source and continue with their commercial pro line. This truly and utterly sucks,…
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Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.14 Released: April 16 Fixed topcrash Bug Firefox 3 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th 55 blockers 26 blocker noms 43 Blockers fixed in the last week 19 new blockers added Key risk areas: Theme 13 blockers Places 23 blockers Well resourced (Dietrich, Mano, Marco, Ondrej) Fixed 12 blockers last week Separate resources on each platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) 13 bugs fixed last week Better than last week Gecko 1.9 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th Builds start: QA starts: Release to beta channel: Final Release: Status: 33 Blockers remaining for…
Open Office Documents in Firefox via OpenOffice.org
AT&T is trying to get in the to the web browser market now with their own browser called Pogo. Before you run out and download this keep in mind, it is still in development and in limited private beta. You can sign up to be notified when the public beta will be opened. Further, unless you have a really powerful machine don’t even bother as the performance would stink. I am sure you are thinking “It is a web browser, how powerful of a machine would I need?” Well, the minimum requirements are 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a…
Numerous times I have written about FastStone (Image Capture) and I still use the application for most of my screenshot needs. However, there is a sever limitation with FastStone as it only allows you to capture what is visible on your screen, hence the term screenshot. This can be a problem if you want to capture and entire web page and it is larger than your screen. In the case of FastStone or any other screenshot application, you would have to create multiple screenshots. There is an easier and better way with Abduction.
This is a not a ‘Microsoft Parody’ video. This ‘marketing’ video for Vista SP1 is for real as Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer appears in the video. After watching this, makes me wonder who approved and signed off on this project (and if they are still working for Microsoft). If you are at work, watch at your own risk! You may want to turn down the volume…even if you are not at work you may still want to turn down the volume! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU] Source: Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Firefox 2.0.0.14 a security update has been released. This release addressed Bug 425576, which caused crashes within the JavaScript garbage collector. See Firefox 2.0.0.14 Release Notes for more details. Users may obtain Firefox 2.0.0.14 manually via the Check for Updates… option from the Help menu. Automatic upgrade (for those who have this feature enabled) should occur within the next 24-48 hours. Alternatively, users may also download Firefox 2.0.0.14 directly by going to http://getfirefox.com.
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.14 Firedrill Release due to topcrash Bug: 425576 QA works on testcase: April 2-4 Builds start: April 4 QA starts: April 7 Release to beta channel: April 9 or 10 Final Release: April 15 Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released: April 2nd Firefox 3 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th 55 blockers 26 blocker noms 43 Blockers fixed in the last week 19 new blockers added Key risk areas: Theme 13 blockers Places 23 blockers Well resourced (Dietrich, Mano, Marco, Ondrej) Fixed 12 blockers last week Separate resources on each platform (Windows,…
Back in September it was announced The Firefox Extension Guru’s Home had become a .com. However, the hosting was still on the old ffextensionguru.info domain. Friday evening we switched the primary hosting over to the ffextensionguru.com domain and made .info an alias. Visitors will not notice anything different if they go to either domain as they are both the same. As it stands now, ffextensionguru.info will be going away in July 2011 and the original ffextensiongurublog.info domain in February 2010. To avoid confusion it is best to use http://ffextensionguru.com for The Firefox Extension Guru’s Home and http://blog.ffextensionguru.com for The Firefox…
By default when you open a new tab in Firefox, it opens with a blank tab. In IE7 the default behaviour is to load the users home page in the newly opened tab. The about:config entry browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab is suppose to allow you to choose to have either the browser startup page, blank page (default), Home Page or Last Visited Page open in the new tab. However, this does not work with Firefox, only SeaMonkey. For more on this see bug 269664 for details. The extension New Tab Homepage will load your home page (if you have more than one, then…