Back around Valentine’s Day this year, Firefox hit 300 Million Downloads. Today, a little under 7 months later, we celebrate reaching another 100 million downloads! It is important to note this the number of times Fx has been downloaded, not necessarily the number of users which is around 40 million. A quick time line: November 9, 2004 – Fx 1.0 Released February 16, 2005 – 25 Million Downloads April 29, 2005 – 50 Million Downloads November 2, 2005 – 100 Million Downloads November 29, 2005 – Fx 1.5 Released July 31, 2006 – 200 Million Downloads October 24, 2006 –…
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Compact, portable, easy to use and no special hardware (other than a 3 1/2″ drive) needed. Source: CyberNet Forum
This is going to really a short review as there is not much to say about this add-on. What this extension does is modify the download manager so that your PC (currently only works for Windows) automatically shuts-down once all downloads are done (either completed or failed). This will occur after a one-minute warning count down has lapsed. However, other dialog boxes/alerts such as ‘Save Changes’ may prevent the shutdown for occurring. You can control turn the options on/off via a check box in the download manager (currently not in the extension options): Auto Shutdown works with Firefox 1.5, Firefox…
The upcoming Fx 3 M8 (Milestone) release due out later this month will allow users to not only pause and resume downloads, but do so across sessions. Currently, if you are downloading a large file and need to shut-down Firefox your choices are either wait until the file is done downloading or shut down Firefox and lose the file you were downloading. With Fx 3, users will be able to pause the download, shut down Firefox, restart Firefox later resume the download right where they left off. New Source: Mozilla Links
Mozilla has finally updated the page Firefox displays when you launch for the very first time (or start with a new profile). According to Percy at Mozilla Links, “But it happens to be very important for Mozilla’s goal to increase user retention, so a team was formed to improve the previous version and create a new one that highlights a small number of Firefox features: the search bar, extensions, security and tabs.” Percy goes on to say, “I guess everyone has its preferences but I am not sure if tabs should be the first one listed. If it’s interpreted by…
US/Canada Labor Day Holiday No Weekly Update Meeting Today
As of September 1st the new address for The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog is going to be http://blog.ffextensionguru.com! The old address http://ffextensiongurublog.info will continue to work through early February 2008. We also plan on keeping the ffextensionguru.info address as our discussion forum is hosted on that domain. ffextensionguru.com is just forwarding to the current ffextensionguru.info site. Also coming up this week on September 6th is the one year anniversary of moving the blog over to WordPress from Blogger.
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Bug Triage TBird 2.0.0.7 – Triage on-going TBird 1.5.0.13 – Released on Thursday (8/23) TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No more major update until next cycle TBird 3 – No Report Fx3 – Ongoing daily smoke testing. Focus testing of new features such as Places, Download Manager, Search bugs. See new test plan for plug-ins manager. Gecko 1.9 – M8 Code Freeze on September 5th. Here what’s being worked 1.9 Blockers Only Prioritizing those blockers which are high complexity and may have unknowns causing longer time…
Mozilla has come out with another custom distribution of Firefox, this one is targeted to College students. The Firefox Campus Edition is Fx 2.0.0.6 bundled with FoxyTunes, Stumbled Upon and Zotero extensions. For those who are not familiar with these extensions, FoxyTunes allows users to control most software media players (Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Amarok, etc) right from the Fx browser; StumbleUpon is a social is a social networking site where people can share web sites they stumble upon and Zotero is a tool for both online and paper references collection that aids students and academics on researches. News…
Here’s a sneak peak of Microsoft’s zunePhone (a work in progress)…