Much to Microsoft’s dismay people are still using IE6 (released in 2001). 11%-12% of the browser market to be exact. Consider IE9 is suppose to be coming out later this year, Microsoft would really like to be done with IE6. So they have launched a site called IE6Countdown.com. The purpose of the site is to countdown the market share of IE6 until it reaches 1% (don’t expect that to be anytime soon). It also shows this market share by country. The country still using IE6 the most is China making up 35% of the usage of IE6. Source: Seattle PI:…
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Mozilla has released an update to Firefox 3.6 on March 4th. This release addressed an issue where some Java applets would fail to load in Firefox 3.6.14 See the release notes for more details. User should soon be prompted to upgrade but can also can by going to the Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates… There is no update for Firefox 3.5, 3.5.17 is the most update version released on March 1st.
WARNING: Performing the below action can result in Miramar becoming unstable or unresponsive due to an incompatible add-on. Do so at your own risk. Since Nightly Tester Tools hasn’t been made compatible yet with Miramar Alpha 2 I had to find a manual way to force add-ons to work. This can be done via Thunderbird’s Config Editor (Tools >> Options… Advanced and click Config Editor button in the Advanced Configuration section). Click the I’ll Be careful, I promise! button Right-click in an empty area Select New then Boolean In the preference name box enter: extensions.checkCompatibility.3.3a Select: false If this has…
Mozilla Messaging has released an update for Thunderbird 3.1 on March 1st. This release addressed: Several fixes to improve performance, stability and security, see the Security Advisory. Several fixes to improve handling of large folder files stored locally. For more information and to download see the Thunderbird 3.1.8 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 has ended! Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1
Mozilla has released an update to Firefox 3.6 on March 1st. This release addresses several security issues as well as stability issues. See the release notes for more details. User should soon be prompted to upgrade but can also can by going to the Help the Menu and selecting Check For Updates…
Mozilla released an update for Firefox 3.5 on March 1st. This released addressed several security issues as well as stability issues. See the Release Notes for more information. Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going to Help menu and selecting Check For Updates. IMPORTANT! Firefox 3.5 support will be ending soon. Upgrade to Firefox 3.6
It only took Mozilla 5 Betas and 2 1/2 months to fully respond to the backlash of the new add-ons bar introduced in Firefox 4 Beta 7. Back when I installed Firefox 4 Beta 9, I discovered the lack of usability with the new add-ons bar which was introduced in Firefox 4 Beta 7. Mainly, it no longer displayed the status of the page loading and more importantly, it did not show link targets (address when hovering over a link). Instead link targets were shown (and not very clearly) up in the address bar. Improvements did start coming with the…
Just Released Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 – February 25th Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.5.17 – March 1st Firefox 3.6.14 – March 1st Future Release Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – To Be Announced Firefox 4.0 – To Be Announced
Mozilla released the twelfth beta for Firefox 4.0 on February 25th. This is a regular beta release and is being made available for testing purposes only. New stuff in this Beta 12 release: Increased performance while viewing Flash content Improved plugin compatibility with hardware acceleration enabled Hovering over links now displays the URL at the bottom of the window rather than in the location bar General stability, performance, and compatibility improvements See the complete changelist from the previous beta For more info see the release notes for Firefox 4 Beta 12. The next planned release is the Release Candidate (RC)…
Due to crash issues upon startup with Firefox 3.5.17/3.6.14 (which also affected Thunderbird 3.1.8), the next release has been pushed back to March 1st. Also as a reminder, Thunderbird 3.0 is no longer supported as of early December.