He says “many Firefox users will see as godsend” and I may be one of them.My browser is heavily customised from years of tweaking it. “… Australis will remove a lot of features, and it was not really clear if add-on developers would create extensions in time to provide users with restore options.“Mozilla developer Aris, who is responsible for the Classic Toolbar Buttons add-on revealed that he has created an add-on that many Firefox users will see as godsend. …” Source: Ghacks Technology Newsletter More Good News: Firefox Add-on to restore classic functionality when Australis launches
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Searches in the Firefox in browser Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) will no longer return results for add-ons which are experimental or not “Fully Reviewed”. Fully reviewed add-ons meet all of our quality standards, while preliminarily [sic] reviewed add-ons only have to meet a lower standard, focused mostly on security and privacy. While Mozilla did make the reviews levels clear on the AMO site, the in browser add-ons manager did not show a distinction between Fully Reviewed and Experimental add-ons. As a result, users could unknowingly install an experimental add-ons when they believed they were installing a Fully Reviewed add-on….
I just now installed this. Will post later if I run across any problems with it. “… SettingSanity is a new Firefox extension that adds all missing preferences back to the Firefox options. All you need to do is install the extension and restart the browser to get access to the removed preferences again.“Even better is the fact that you get the advanced settings back as well. Both the JavaScript and images preferences are added back to the content tab where they can once again be accessed. …” Source: Ghacks Technology Newsletter Details SettingSanity adds removed preferences back to Firefox
Mozilla released an emergency update for Firefox 23 on August 16, 2013. Firefox 23.0.1 addressed these issues: Rendering glitches on H.264 video only in FF23 on Vista (Bug 901944) Spellchecking broken with non-ASCII characters in profile path (Bug 902532) Audio static/”burble”/breakup in Firefox to Firefox WebRTC calls (Bug 901527) Depending on the operating system and update settings (Tools > Options… > Advanced > Update Tab), users will be prompted to update within in the next 48-hours. Windows users can also go to Help > About Firefox and click the Check for Updates button. Users may also manually download and install Firefox via getfirefox.com. The…
Just Released August 6th Firefox 23 Firefox for Android 23 Firefox 17.0.8 ESR Firefox 24 Beta (24.0b1)* Firefox 25 Aurora (25.0a2)* August 16th Firefox 23.0.1 Coming Soon September 17th Firefox 24 Firefox for Android 24 Firefox 24.0.0 ESR Firefox 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 26 Aurora (26.0a2)* Future Releases October 29th Firefox 25 Firefox for Android 25 Firefox 24.0.1 ESR Firefox 26 Beta (26.0b1)* Firefox 27 Aurora (27.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by…
… to be sold on Ebay.Hot topic today. I must have skimmed 100 headlines before I gave up on selecting one.Take your pick Google News Go get it.
“If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would protect the content of messages from being read by automated tools and anyone else with access.“Mailvelope is a free browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that introduces OpenPGP encryption to webmail services that you may be using. The extension ships with support for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook and…
Just Released None Coming Soon August 6th Firefox 23 Firefox for Android 23 Firefox 17.0.8 ESR Firefox 24 Beta (24.0b1)* Firefox 25 Aurora (25.0a2)* Future Releases September 17th Firefox 24 Firefox for Android 24 Firefox 24.0.0 ESR Firefox 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 26 Aurora (26.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
Just Released None Coming Soon August 6th Thunderbird 17.0.8 Thunderbird ESR 17.0.8 Thunderbird 24 Beta (24.1b1)* Thunderbird 25 Earlybird (25.0a2)* Future Releases September 17th Thunderbird ESR 24.0.0 Thunderbird 24.0.0 Thunderbird 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Thunderbird 26 Earlybird (26.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
“The web is moving away from plugins which is a good thing as it reduces the risk of falling pray to security attacks that target old versions of plugins or use 0-days to attack even the latest versions. Some plugins do cling on however despite the move to HTML5 and JavaScript. Especially Java and Flash need to be mentioned here, but chance is that your browser picked up quite a few plugins along the way. “Firefox is still picking up plugins that get installed on the system automatically which can be quite problematic if you do not want the browser…