There has been a lot happening this week with Firefox and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far: Firefox 3.6.26 Released Firefox 10.0 Desktop and Android Released Firefox ESR (10.0.0) Released Firefox 3.6.x support ending April 24, 2012 Mozilla-Central (Nightly) Channel moving to MSVC2010 / No more support for Windows 2000 or Windows XP (RTM and SP1) (Firefox 13+) As promised, more information on the Firefox ESR. Firefox ESR was created to address concerns with the current Rapid Release Process by Enterprise Users. The first Firefox…
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Back in July we wrote that support for Windows 2000 and XP SP1 would be ending with the Firefox 8 release (November 8, 2011) due to Mozilla moving to C++ 2010 compiler. Firefox 10 was released on January 31st and still supports Windows 2000 as well as all versions of Windows XP. Bug 563318 (switch trunk builds to use Visual C++ 2010) has had landed on the Firefox 13 Nightly builds (has been temporarily backed out to address some crash issues). So those who are wanting to use the Firefox 13 Nightly builds will need to be running Windows XP…
From the January 9th, 2012 Mozilla Weekly Status meeting was mention that “The biggest piece of Silent Update landed: a Windows service so updates don’t require UAC prompts.” The link takes you to the feature page, but really doesn’t provide much more info. I am not even certain if the entire feature is done yet. If it is then we would likely see this in the Firefox 12 release on July 17th, 2012.
Well, I didn’t see this coming, mainly because I use the Beta builds as my default Thunderbird build on my desktop machine. I do run the Release version of Thunderbird on my laptop, but since I am on break from school, have not even turned on the laptop this week. On December 23, 2011, Mozilla released an update for Thunderbird 9. Thunderbird 9.0.1, according to the (vague) release notes fixed an issue with Windows XP users not being able to run Thunderbird in some cases. Took a little hunting but this was related to Bug 712960. This is unrelated to…
An emergency update for Firefox was released today,. Firefox 9.0.1 addresses a crash upon startup after updating to Firefox 9.0 for mainly Mac users. However, Linux and Windows users were not immune to this crash either, just a lot less frequent. For more information see bugs: 711794, 708572 and 335998. This update is available for Windows, Linux and Mac users (Android and tablet users will be staying on Firefox 9.0). Current Firefox 9.0 users go to Help > About Firefox to get the latest update or you can manually update at getfirefox.com.
A quick update on the Firefox 9.0 release. At this time Windows, Android and possibly Linux versions have been released. Currently there are issues with startup crashes for Mac users on Firefox 9.0 and this release has been pulled. Mac users also should not be getting update notifications at this time.
…Keystroke logging is the act of intercepting typed keys before they are displayed to the screen, then logging them to a file. This allows for intrusion and access to data—even passwords…” Source: businessinsider.com | WonderHowTo | Dec. 20, 2011 How to Defend from Keyloggers in Firefox with Keystroke Encryption
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…
Mozilla has pushed out an emergency update to Firefox 8.0.0 on November 21st to select users. This update addressed two top crash bugs in Firefox 8.0.0: Bug 699134 – RoboForm versions 7.6.2 and OLDER on all platforms crashes Firefox 8.0 – RoboForm 7.6.3 which was just released is fine with Firefox 8.0. Bug 700835 – Firefox 8 and up crash with Apple’s latest Java updates for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 closing tab/window containing Java applet – Mac Only Based on the version of Firefox you are currently running and what platform (Windows, Mac or Linux) you are on will…
Much like Firefox, there are some unofficial 64-Bit builds for Thunderbird. They can be found here. However, at this time the most latest version is Thunderbird 7.0.0 (release is 8.0.0). As with any other developmental build, use at your own risk and ideally with a separate profile (this where ProfileMaanger can come in handy). Thanks to Bob Slim for the tip.