Mozilla pushed out an update for Thunderbird 15 late on Monday, September 10th. This release addresses these issues: Crashes when searching emails and forwarding emails (770262, 780908) Find and replace and some other actions in the compose window were not working correctly (787673) User should be notified shortly of the update or may update via Help > About Thunderbird. The next scheduled release for Thunderbird will be on October 9th with Thunderbird 16.
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“The Mozilla Foundation would like to see its Firefox browser running on more mobile phones. But since almost no handsets ship with Firefox pre-installed, that means getting the software onto more of the phones that are already out there – even if they use older hardware.“Up until this Monday, the mobile version of Firefox has required Android 2.2 and hardware that includes an ARMv7 processor. But now, however, beta versions of Firefox now include experimental support for a limited selection of ARMv6 devices. … “ 11th September 2012 Source: The Register More Firefox support extended to older Android mobiles
” Mozilla recently rolled out Firefox 15, the latest version of the browser in their new rapid-release schedule. With this new release there are quite a few new features, which have been outlined in the above linked post. One interesting feature that bears a little more attention and some explanation is the new built-in PDF reader… “ Source: Ghacks.net Enable the Built-in PDF Reader in Firefox 15
I have learned a couple more thing about Waterfox and the AVG Security Toolbar. In regards to Waterfox, according to a source from the Firefox Builds forum, the Waterfox developer did partner with AVG due to the high cost of bandwidth associated with the downloads from Source Forge. Again, it is important to understand that my outrage was not that the developer choose to bundle the AVG Security Toolbar with Waterfox as the user does get the option (though not easily) to not install the toolbar. The issue I have is that when you use Waterfox’s uninstaller, it takes it…
Once in a while Firefox or Thunderbird does not close gracefully. This could be caused by the application crashing or simply the application didn’t do some “housekeeping” after it closed. You go to run Firefox or Thunderbird and you get the message it is already running, but it is not. The majority of the time, going into the Windows Task Manager via Control+Shift+Esc and clicking the Processes tab you will find firefox.exe or thunderbird.exe listed. Highlight the process and click ‘End Process’ and confirm. Once the process has been ended, you should be able to launch the application again. But what…
Once in a while Firefox or Thunderbird does not close gracefully. This could be caused by the application crashing or simply the application didn’t do some “housekeeping” after it closed. You go to run Firefox or Thunderbird and you get the message it is already running, but it is not. The majority of the time, going into the Windows Task Manager via Control+Shift+Esc and clicking the Processes tab you will find firefox.exe or thunderbird.exe listed. Highlight the process and click ‘End Process’ and confirm. Once the process has been ended, you should be able to launch the application again. But what…
As we wrap up this week of ‘people actually buy this stuff?’. I present the Hawaii or Hula Chair. Not sure how long this has been around. Their domain was registered in 2006 and is still active, but the same can not be said for their website. But wait…it is still being sold today (though the fabric is now black instead of tan) on a few sites including Amazon for around $200-$250.
Just Released September 6th Firefox 15.0.1 *DESKTOP ONLY* Coming Soon October 9th Firefox 16.0 Firefox for Android 16 Firefox 10.0.8 ESR Firefox 17 Beta (17.0b1)* Firefox 18 Aurora (18.0a2)* Future Releases November 20th Firefox 17.0 Firefox for Android 17 Firefox 10.0.9 ESR Firefox 17.0 ESR Firefox 18 Beta (17.0b1)* Firefox 19 Aurora (18.0a2)* * 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. See the Wiki for more details.
Windows “JavaRa is a sweet little program that allows you to manage Java on your PC. It comes with functionality to uninstall old Java versions, update the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to the latest version, install the latest version of Java, and perform a number of other features related to Oracle’s Java technology.“JavaRa 2.0 has just been released by its author, … “ Source: Ghacks.net JavaRa 2.0: manage Java on your PC Go get it.
Just when you thought you’ve seen it all…comes Perfect Polly…so life like, so real…so quickly becomes annoying, but unlike the real thing you can turn Perfect Polly off ‘at the touch of a button’. Still being sold for $14.99 (plus shipping & handling) at PerfectPollyPet.com