Here are the details of today’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx/TBird 2.0.0.5 – Firedrill Release due a critical security bug (cross browser scripting). Also a regression was found in Fx 2.0.0.5RC1 resulting in a re-spin. Currently testing Fx 2.0.0.5RC2, updates available soon for testing. Possible release this Thursday (07/19) but TBird could be released Friday or following week. Fx3: Places team focused on UI (details) Download manager spec complete Ongoing design discussions in d-a-f AddOns specs in progress, Madhava and Rob Strong leading that work More plans to be posted this week about visual refresh M7 freeze next week, m8 is…
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The next milestone in the Netscape 9.0 series, Beta 2 was release late last week. Netscape 9.0 is based off of Firefox 2.0.0.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070710 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b2). I have used Netscape 8 in the past and had found it to be very unstable, so I was not sure what to expect with Netscape 9. I played with it for a couple hours this morning and much to my surprise it was very stable (never even crashed š ), even on Delphi Forums where some ads would cause Netscape 8 to crash. Being Netscape…
The Guru is getting popular! I’ve had two extension review requests in the past couple days. Today’s extension review is Interclue, “an extensive and polished new add-on that brings you link summaries, link context information and useful next action icons inside a handy tooltip window that turns up when you want it, not when you least expect it.” Unlike Snap Shots, it provides more than just a preview of the link. With Interclue you get a preview plus ‘clues’. These ‘clues’ include statics such as number of words, links and files contained within the document. In addition there is (optional)…
Note: If you are using a Nightly or other custom builds of Firefox you will need to make a change in your about:config in order to be allowed to download this add-on. Change general.useragent.extra.firefox preference from Bon Echo (or whatever your build is called) to Firefox. Once you have installed the add-on you can get safely reset that preference. Snap allows you to see preview or a ‘snap-shot’ of the link target when you hover over a link. WordPress has been using Snap for a while now and it is one of those features you either like or hate. I…
It has been nearly 9 months since I originally posted the Firefox 2.0: Close Tab Buttons tweak and still it is the top viewed and commented post. Making this adjustment is the first thing I do when I setup a new profile as having the button on every tab is just too much. I have setup a poll and discussion on the The Firefox Extension Guru’s Forum about this very topic. Come join in.
They CyberNet Blog has a really good article today, What Was Your Experience Cancelling AOL?.Ā I have had my own experience and when I use to work for a credit card company have heard many of horror stories.Ā It took me nearly a month to cancel an account I never activated.Ā Several phone calls kept yielding more free months offers but never a cancellation.Ā I found the best way to cancel AOL is accept an offer, wait for the confirmation letter, complete the form on the back and then either FAX or mail (be sure to make a copy as…
Earlier this week I had instructed in my Fixed Broken Feed Subscriber entry: To add our feed to Firefox’s Bookmark Toolbar simply click the RSS icon in the address bar. Unfortunately this does not work because I am having my custom domain (ffextensiongurublog.info) forwarded to my WordPress blog. Because I am doing this, Firefox and other browsers are not able to automatically detect the feed. To subscribe to the feed simply click on the link in the sidebar below the Subscribe Now header. Depending on how your browser handles XML feeds one of two things will happen: A new tab/window…
In the Installing Add-ons in TBird entry, I put together a very comprehensive step-by-step list to install add-ons. All along I was think āthere has to be a simpler way to do this.āĀ Well, there is according to this comment from CHR: As far as I know, one could still drag & drop the extension from firefox to the thunderbird add-ons manager window to install the extensions right away. Okay it caināt be that simple, can it? Well I decided I would test this out and install Lightning (which I am still having trouble saving events/to-do tasks) via this method….
This week’s meeting has brought a lot of big news and not just the usual Firefox/Thunderbird. Firefox/Thunderbird Builds TBird 1.5.0.13/Fx 2.0.0.5 – Code freeze scheduled for this Friday (07/13) with a targeted release date of 07/31. TBird 3 – Begin phasing out the old Talkback on this weeks trunk builds. Will be replaced with Breakpad Fx 3.0 – Alpha 6 released on July 2nd [Release Notes]. First Beta release on the Fx 3 branch was slated for 07/31. However there is now going to be an Alpha 7. Code freeze is scheduled for 07/25 with ship date of 7/31. See…
Mozilla is currently auctioning off a couple MacBook Pro’s, one [eBay item 170128089933] has a laser etched Firefox logo similar to the picture here. This is being done to promote the newly launched Mozilla Firefox eBay Edition, a special Firefox 2 release bundled with the Firefox Companion for eBay, an extension that allows users to track watched and selling items. Also, 100% of the final sale price will support Computer Aid International. At time of this posting the bidding was at $2856. News Source: Mozilla Links