As noted in yesterday’s Firefox Release Recap, Firefox 8 will be released on Tuesday, November 8th. There are several new features coming in this release and there are couple that really standout. These include additions to the add-ons installation and management process as well as only allowing tabs to load when selected upon restart. Add-ons check first run On your first run after you have updated to Firefox 8, you are going to see an add-ons screen similar to that below. This will let you know which add-ons are currently installed, if they are compatible (or can be updated) and…
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In the phone market that is. Microsoft and Nokia have unveiled plans on how their partnership is going to keep both of them alive in the US mobile market. It will be interesting to watch, but I doubt Microsoft has a chance against Apple (which is now the most valuable company in the world) with their iPhone or the Android phones. The only “selling point” I have seen is towards the end of the article: As iPhones and Android devices pick up steam in the corporate world, BlackBerries are in less demand. Windows Phone 7, which comes with light Office…
Famous words of Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer in a 2007 Interview with CNBC in response to Steve Jobs unveiling of the iPhone at Mac World in January that year. By the end of 2007 with the iPhone only being on the market for six months apple sold nearly 1.4 million iPhones. That numbered jumped to 11.6 million, however 6.8 million of that was the newer iPhone 3G and also at that time Apple slashed the price to $399. [Full Sales History]
Okay, so it is not true that Dumb People Use IE.Seems this was all a hoax and The Guru fell for it, as did The Seattle PI, CNN, NPR and many more news outlets. Today, AptiQuant – the “company” behind a purported study that recorded which browsers people used to take an online IQ test – posted the following message to its bogus website: AptiQuant was set up in late July 2011 by comparison shopping website AtCheap.com, in order to launch a fake “study” called “Intelligent Quotient and Browser Usage.” The study claimed that people using Internet Explorer have a…
…at least that was this survey of 100,000 people says from Vancouver, B.C.-based AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting. Source: Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog
At least that is what one person is purposing with Bug 661075. Flashbacks to Office 97 with Clippy come to mind (and ironically he/it is mentioned). I do like Comment 5 where the user feels Firefox is “a prosthetic limb that extends my reach onto the web.” I’ve heard browsers called a lot of things, but prosthetic limb is a new one.
I’m downloading this later. Certainly looks like a useful tool.I retrieved some files from a partition I messed up recently using BrowserLinux and that was as simple as moving them from one folder to another but this is much more.I have some family and friends who do not seem to understand the importance of regular maintenance on Windows and I think this will make the job simpler when I get the call.From a review: the idea of using Linux to help teach Windows users how to recover their files has invoked a few chuckles amongst the Linux community as well…
There is talk of ending Windows 2000 support starting with Firefox 8. This is in part due to move to MSVC (Microsoft Visual C++) 2010 based compiler which requires Windows XP SP2 or newer OS. Firefox 8 is now on the Nightly Branch is scheduled for release on November 8, 2011. Also, there is chance 64-Bit Windows support may be coming with Firefox 8. We will post more about this as more information is released.
Last week a new feature landed on the Firefox 7 Nightly Builds. Bug 665580 removes the ‘http://’ from the address bar and just displays the remainder of the URL and also omitting the trialing /. So in Firefox 7 the blog address would appear in the address bar as blog.ffextensionguru.com (the bolding of the domain name is part of the new Domain Highlighting in Firefox 6). This has seen some interesting discussions in both Firefox Builds and on Bugzilla. It appears Chrome and Opera (but not IE9) are already doing this and of course Firefox has to follow suit now….
A Public Service Announcement from the Guru. I am not just talking about Firefox, but more importantly your browser plugins (Flash, JAVA, QuickTime, etc) and yes even those Windows Updates too. The below two articles are from a colleague’s blog Grand Stream Dreams and describes what happens when users continue to use out-dated browsers with out-dated plug-ins. A good lesson here too is don’t be fooled by those security alert warnings advertisements aka scareware. Some folks may find these posts a bit technical, but they do show the amount of the time and work that is involved in fixing an…