Not much going on right now with Mozilla. There has been some new feature announcements for Firefox 3, but haven’t had a chance to look those over yet. Still need to do a fresh profile on my Firefox 3 Alpha 7. It has been a while since I have had Something Different. I came across this Jet-Powered School Bus YouTube video via the CyberNet forums. The YouTube video does not actually show the bus moving just them testing the engine. The bus body is made out of aluminum and the motors are a Westinghouse JW-34 Jetengine & 17.000 PK Brandstof…
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FoxSaver is add-on that will turn your idle Firefox into a photo screen saver/digital picture frame. You can use your own pictures via Flickr RSS ( other Media RSS coming soon). Don’t have your own pictures, you can those handpicked daily by FoxSaver. Some of the features include: Easily toggle on/off (via status bar) Full Screen if Firefox is maximized. Supports Dual Monitors, you can move your Firefox to another screen and enjoy the view while working! The most recent version was release earlier this week and included: Idle minutes can be changed without restart. Sidebar can be optionally hided….
I have not had much luck with Firefox on Ubuntu lately. I booted up into Ubuntu earlier today and ran the software updates which included an upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.6 (release not nightly). Now, I am back to the point where Firefox just freezes after a couple minutes. Not sure what is causing this, last time it was due to the Kernel update around Memorial Day, but that was fixed with another Kernel update and going to 2.0.0.4. I suspect it may be something gone afoul in my profile, so next time I will start with a fresh profile. While…
I mentioned earlier in the Weekly Update 2007-08-06 post that there is going to a major update to take TBird users from the 1.5.0.12 to the 2.0.0.6 build. I got to thinking about this and something didn’t make sense. If the Major Update feature is still being tested, how could it be included with TBird 1.5.0.12? I am guessing they meant to say TBird 1.5.0.13, which is in the works. Fx 1.5.0.12 included the Major Update feature, so may be that is where they got 1.5.0.12 from.
I mentioned earlier in the Weekly Update 2007-08-06 post that there is going to a major update to take TBird users from the 1.5.0.12 to the 2.0.0.6 build. I got to thinking about this and something didn’t make sense. If the Major Update feature is still being tested, how could it be included with TBird 1.5.0.12? I am guessing they meant to say TBird 1.5.0.13, which is in the works. Fx 1.5.0.12 included the Major Update feature, so may be that is where they got 1.5.0.12 from.
Forbes senior editor Daniel Lyons. This according to the New York Times earlier today. Here are examples of Daniel Lyons writings regarding the Windows Vista launch: Daniel Lyons in Forbes: “Customers gripe about buying Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. But they’ll use it. … Microsoft says Vista is easier to manage and more secure than Windows XP. But, says John Halamka, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School and CareGroup Health System, Harvard’s affiliated group of hospitals: ‘Vista is also more complex, so it will probably add ten security features, but you’ll also get ten new security flaws. We’re going…
Here are the details of today’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx/TBird 2.0.0.6 – Fx 2.0.0.6 released July 30th. TBird 2.0.0.6 released August 2nd. Fx 1.5.0.12 Major Update: Major Update only upgrades to Fx 2.0.04, will need to do another upgrade to current 2.0.0.X build TBird 1.5.0.13 – Triage on-going no release date yet. TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – Next in line for release with testing this week. TBird 3 – The new and improved Humspell now on the trunk! TBird can now read the Mac OS X system address book. Fx3: No Report Gecko 1.9: Alpha/M7 Released on…
With Fx 3a7 Released, I wanted to give our readers a better idea as to where we were last year in regards to Firefox 2. It took some hunting through my blog, the CyberNet Blog and the Mozilla FTP Server to find the release dates of the milestones for Fx 2: Fx2 Release History (all dates are 2006): Alpha 1 – March 17th Alpha 2 – May 13th Alpha 3 – May 27th Beta 1 – August 29th Beta 2 – August 31st Release Candidate 1: September 26th Release Candidate 2: October 6th Release Candidate 3: October 16th FINAL: October…
Mozilla has released the next milestone on the Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso) Builds, Alpha 7. Mostly ‘behind the scenes’ improvements. Percy at Mozilla Links has done a nice review: Firefox 3 Alpha 7 released. Next up is m8 (could be Alpha 8 or Beta 1) and that is due in mid September. At this rate it is looking doubtful we are going to see Firefox 3 released this year. I decided to take a look at the Mozilla FTP site to see where we were this time last year with Fx 2. Turns out at the end of August 2006,…
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