August, was a quiet month on the blog with a variety of Something Different Posts: 415 Unsupported Media Type HTTP Error Cartoons – a graphical representation of the common HTTP errors. School Time Jet Bus – Did anybody bring the marshmallows? Sneak Peak: zunePhone – Microsoft’s attempt to compete with the iPhone. The blogger known as the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ true identity was exposed. Someone got fired for this… – a minor mishap involving an iPhone display at an Apple Store Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 and Firefox 3.0a7 were released along with the Firefox Campus Edition. This special build of Firefox 2.0.0.6…
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Ever since the issues with Yahoo!Maps and the Firefox nightly builds, I’ve been using Google Maps. But there a few steps involved when wanting to look-up an address you find on a website. First you must highlight and copy the address, then open a new tab and go to Goggle Maps and then finally paste in the address you wish to look-up. Once installed, the Locator extension adds a new option to the context (right-click) menu, locate on Google Map. So all you have to do now is a highlight the address, right-click, select this option and a new window…
On December 25th, Learn Firefox, a sub-blog of CyberNet News celebrated its one-year anniversary. Ashley sums up Learn Firefox well: With nearly 200 articles, the site has turned into the place to go for those who are just learning all about Firefox. It’s also a great place to go when you’re looking for a tutorial on a new extension or when you’re in need of a new theme and you’d like to see what it looks like before downloading. I think many of you will agree that Firefox is a great browser, but using it to its full potential takes…
Each time you install a new version of Firefox and restart the browser you are presented with that version’s Release Notes. Most folks end up not even reading the notes or may be just skimming them and closing the tab. If you want to return to the notes later you could go to the Mozilla Firefox Release Notes site and then select the current version from the list. But wait, there is a much easier way to see the release notes for your current version of Firefox. Simply go the Help menu in the Firefox (or Thunderbird) menu bar and…
July was a big month for Thunderbird posts with new version and changes on the upcoming Thunderbird 3, add-ons plus major news involving Mozilla and Thunderbird: Thunderbird’s Future – Mitchel Baker discusses the three possibilities for the future of Thunderbird Mitchell Speaks Out – Mitchel’s responses to comments left on her blog in reference to her initial post about Thunderbird’s Future. Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 – A new and improved release on the Thunderbird 2.0.0.X branch Desktop or Web Mail? – With the growing popularity of GMail and other online e-mail services, do people still prefer or even use desktop e-mail clients…
Ellie asked on the Tweak: Add-ons ‘Install’ Button post: Could you share with us a list of your Fx extensions? 🙂 Sure, but keep in mind, this list is a lot shorter than it was back in October when my old XP system crashed. Unlike with Thunderbird, I did not port my Firefox profile over to the new machine. Here is the list as of Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:00:43 GMT via InfoLister: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12pre) Gecko/20071224 BonEcho/2.0.0.12pre Extensions (enabled: 21, disabled: 1): Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3 Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 Autocomplete Manager 2.2…
June was quite the month for releases: Fx 3 Alpha 5 – Later than planned but finally saw the inclusion of Places again Netscape 9 Beta 1 – Only four months after the initial announcement (of course it helps that it is built off of Firefox 2) Flock 0.7.14 – Nothing all that special just Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Safari 3.0 Beta For Windows – How Weird! Major Update – at long last the update the allows user to go from Fx 1.5 to 2.0 automatically Whilst on the subject of Safari, I did take it for a ‘Test Drive‘. It handled…
First off, Merry Christmas from the Guru! For those readers who were not around this time last year, I did an impromptu special feature called the Fx Year In Review. I thought it would be neat to look back and see what happened with Firefox that year, especially with the release of Firefox 2.0! I want to continue this as an annual Christmas tradition so here’s a look back at Firefox in 2007. A lot of us were hoping to see Firefox 3 come out in 2007, however given the huge complexity of Firefox 3 (especially Places) this just did…
There will not be a Weekly Update Meeting today or next week. The next scheduled Weekly Update Meeting will be on January 7th, 2008.
Up until the release of Thunderbird 3, there was not an automated way to install extensions from within Thunderbird. In the older versions you had to download the add-on, find it on your computer, open Thunderbird’s Add-Ons Manager window and then drag the file into the window to install. Most 3rd party extension hosting sites do not offer the automated install for Thunderbird. You can setup your Thunderbird to have an ‘Install’ Button on the add-ons manager. It is turned off by default, but can be turned on via a very simple tweak in Thunderbird’s Config Editor. Thunderbird From the…