Ads on websites are a bit of a touchy subject. Sites do need money to stay ‘alive’ and advertising (and in our case as well donations) helps pay the bills. However, there is a limit to what can be consider acceptable. Small non-intrusive text (or even image based) ads are good. Pop-ups, pop-unders and Flash based ads are what can be consider intrusive. Starting with Adblock Plus (ABP) 2.0 for Firefox and Chrome, ‘non-intrusive ads’ will be shown by default. This can be turned off via the ABP preferences and if your are using a ‘privacy’ filter, those ads likely…
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The ‘patch’ mentioned earlier this week has landed on the Aurora (Firefox 10) and Beta (Firefox 9) channels on December 9, 2011. Mac users on OS X 10.6/10.7 using Firefox 8.0.1, will likely still need to wait until the Firefox 9.0 release on December 20, 2011 to see this patch. However, Bug 705931 is still showing open which means that the developers are still trying to test to see if this patch will resolve the JAVA crash issue.
Some clarification is needed here as to which versions of OS X are affected. Apple did not update Java on OS X 10.5 so there is no crash bug associated with this version. However, the latest Java update by Apple on OS X 10.6 and 10.7 is triggering this crash,
Looks like the developers are making some progress in getting the Java Applet based crashes with Firefox 8.0.1 on Mac under control. The latest news on bug 705931 is the crashes have stopped by increasing the default plugin cache size from ’10’ to ’50’. They are having other users testing this out before a patch is posted. If patch is successful, I am not certain if it is going to be pushed out to Mac users as firedrill release (Firefox 8.0.2) or part of the Firefox 9.0 release on December 20th. This is a ‘critical’ bug as sites with Java…
On December 7, 2004 Mozilla launched Thunderbird 1.0 and by the end of that week had over 1-million downloads. Seven years later there are around 15 to 20-million users world wide. I started using Thunderbird about a year later after I had discovered Firefox.
addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and several other Mozilla sites including Bugzilla, Sync and the Mozilla Support site are currently experiencing service issues. You can check the status here.
addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and several other Mozilla sites including Bugzilla, Sync and the Mozilla Support site are currently experiencing service issues. You can check the status here.
While it is easy to make customizations via Firefox’s about:config manager, it can also be easy to really mess things up. Hence the reason Mozilla has the below warning (which replaced Be Careful,This gun is loaded! warning starting with Firefox 3) the first time you enter about:config manager. You can always change a preference back to the default by right-clicking on the preference name and selecting Reset from the context menu. This is useful if a change has borked (technical term) all or part of Firefox. But what if you have made several changes and are unsure or do not recall…
During the month of November 2011, Mozilla conducted a Thunderbird usage survey. The survey was available via link on the Mozilla Thunderbird Start Page. The results were quite interesting: More than 70% Thunderbird users are men! Please, tell your wife, daughter, partner how great Thunderbird is! Up to 90% of you use Firefox as a web browser. 65% of the respondents have 2 PCs or more and have Thunderbird on most of those PCs. +70% of respondents use either Instant Messaging or Social Network service. This is a slightly higher number than to ones measured in the industry (Forrester 2010:…
Starting with Thunderbird 9.0 Beta 3 (released November 25, 2011) hardware acceleration is now turned off by default. While the premise was good to allow Thunderbird 5.0 and newer to utilize video hardware acceleration, for many user it caused issues including blurry fonts. Thunderbird 9 Beta can be downloaded from the Mozilla Thunderbird builds page.