The next Firefox 2.0 milestone, RC1 was released as scheduled (what a novel concept) on Tuesday, September 26th. For those who are upgrading from Beta 2 you will notice the new theme as I had described in the Firefox 2.0 Theme Update Continues entry from September 12th. This is really the only noticeable change I can see since Beta 2 was released. I am sure there have been many ‘behind-the-scenes’ bug and security fixes. But then again there may be something I missed since I am part of the ‘nightly crew’. Here are the Firefox 2 RC1 release notes. Please…
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Users who downloaded and installed the nightly Thunderbird 2.0b1 (20060926) build are getting this wonderful mess… This is very similar to the mess I had when I had the ‘Buttons!’ Extension enabled. As before, the first thing I did was start disabling my Thunderbird Extensions one-by-one and restart. After disabling all 4 of my extensions this did not go away. Now usually what is displayed in red gives a hint to the offending extension, but I soon realized I am not using a ‘Spellcheck’ extensions with Thunderbird and for that matter I have no more extensions to disable. Next it…
Users who downloaded and installed the nightly Thunderbird 2.0b1 (20060926) build are getting this wonderful mess… This is very similar to the mess I had when I had the ‘Buttons!’ Extension enabled. As before, the first thing I did was start disabling my Thunderbird Extensions one-by-one and restart. After disabling all 4 of my extensions this did not go away. Now usually what is displayed in red gives a hint to the offending extension, but I soon relaized I am not using a ‘Spellcheck’ extensions with Thunderbird and for that matter I have no more extensions to disable. Next it…
As I mentioned in my Update: Windows Vista Start-Up Sound post earlier today there has been a lot of ‘commotion’ about the Windows Vista Start-Up Sound when Microsoft first hinted we would not be able to disable the sound. Last night thanks to the More “Spiritual” Startup Sound In Windows Vista? article on CyberNet News, I was able to hear the ‘spiritual’ startup sound. The video is about 8 seconds, of which about 2 seconds is the start-up sound. Oddly enough this is about the same length as the current XP Start-Up sound.
I guess enough folks finally complained loudly enough for Microsoft to listen to them! Last month I talked about the Windows Vista start-up/boot-up sound ‘crisis’ in my entry: Windows Vista Boot-Up Sound. On Sunday (Sept 24th), comes some good news, via CyberNet News: Microsoft Lets Users Disable Vista’s Startup Sound: In the latest build, version 5728 that was just released the other day, you’ll find a new option in the Sound Control Panel. There is a checkbox that says “Play Windows Startup Sound” Never understood what the big deal was to Microsoft about the start-up sound. Though it seems Microsoft…
One of the new features that is still on the Thunderbird 2.0 Road Map is ‘Tabbed Messages’. The way this feature was suppose to work was allow you to open/view multiple messages in the preview pane switching between tabs. Presently, each message when opened, opens in its own window. Take a look at this screen-shot from bugzilla bug 297379 to get an idea of how this would work. There is another screen-shot showing an interesting idea on how to use tabs on the compose screen. Unlike the first screen-shot, the second one is from Sylpheed-Claws, which is an open-source mail client based…
As of late last night, the Mozilla Developers Calendar for Firefox 2.0, still shows RC1 to be shipped/released tomorrow (Sept 26th). No other dates have been added for future release candidates or the final build. But, the last ‘Bon Echo Status Meeting’ is still scheduled for October 24th, which is still the tentative final release date of Firefox 2.0. However at this point in Firefox 2.0’s development, everything now hangs on what happens once RC1 comes out. Remember, Release Candidates (RC) are essentially the finished product feature wise, but may still have some minor bugs that need to be fixed….
One of the new features that is still on the Thunderbird 2.0 Road Map is ‘Tabbed Messages’. The way this feature was suppose to work was allow you to open/view multiple messages in the preview pane switching between tabs. Presently, each message when opened, opens in its own window. Take a look at this screen-shot from bugzilla bug 297379 to get an idea of how this would work. There is another screen-shot showing an interesting idea on how to use tabs on the compose screen. Unlike the first screen-shot, the second one is from Sylpheed-Claws, which is an open-source mail client…
For nearly 3 months I been using the ‘preview or beta’ version of Foxy Tunes 2.0, which was only available on the developer’s site. Thanks to a tip from CyberNet News (FoxyTunes 2.0 Released For Firefox Users), I am happy to announce the developers have released it to Firefox Add-Ons now. FoxyTunes 2.0 ‘Desktop Widget’ Not only do you get to control your media player right from Firefox, but now there are many new search features. Simply hover over the note button ( ) on your FoxyTunes toolbar to pop-up the ‘desktop widget’ and you select the search features from…
Last night I was notified the next ‘major test’ (mt) update was ready to download. This was the full 7 MB download, not just a small update so it took a little longer. But at least this update didn’t cause my incompatible extensions to become incompatible again. SAMPLE MAJOR UPDATE DETAILS You are seeing something different because we are testing the “major update” functionality of Software Update. Please continue with the update in order to help us test this feature. Accepting this major update should not cause any problems, but if you do experience any problems, please use bugzilla to…