With the release of Firefox 3.0a2/Gecko 1.9a2 earlier this week, there has been a common question, “So what new features come with this milestone? ” The short answer: not much. The long answer is best summed up by Percy from Mozilla Links: “The Mozilla project has released the second alpha of Gran Paradiso. Like Alpha 1 it is not much about Firefox but a testing vehicle for a large number of changes to the underlying Gecko rendering engine. Some important changes have occurred that affect the rendering of partially downloaded content (XML and web pages as well) and the calculation…
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Over on Go Firefox!, an interesting question was posted: Which uses less system resources (memory)? My theory is using tabs would use less resources then having the same sites opened in separate windows. My reasoning is each window has to load the entire browser interface, not just the page content. So, I did a little experiment. First using Firefox 2.0.0.1 with a clean profile (no extensions, no plug-ins and default theme) and imported my bookmarks from another profile. For the first test, I opened Firefox with the clean profile and choose 5 sites and opened each one in its own…
I’ve been a Windows Live Mail Beta (@live.com) user for a while now. So far it has been the best of the web based e-mail clients I have used. I’ve used Lycos, MyWay, Yahoo and even Hotmail in the past but the accounts always become bombarded with spam. Even with the spam protection enabled I still get up to 10+ spam e-mails in my Yahoo Mail INBOX on a daily basis. The only downside, since Windows Live Mail is a Microsoft product, I have to use IE Tab for the messages to display correctly. Sometime in the near future, Windows…
Flock has release a minor “Maintenance Patch” with version 0.7.10. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070130 Firefox/1.5.0.9 Flock/0.7.10.1 The 0.7.10 Flock Maintenance Patch has several enhancements and bug fixes including: Added support for Blogger Beta auto detection Added a progress bar when adding photos to the Photo Uploader Added support for .bmp type photos Open or closed state of the photobar is preserved across Flock restarts Better error messaging and error handling when uploading photos to Photobucket. News Source: Flock Release Notes
Since I waiting for this DNS issue to resolve itself, I am holding off on posting any other major Firefox/Mozilla News. So, a little something different. I am one of those people who are more interested in the Super Bowl Commercials than the game itself (although this year’s was a really great game). One my favorites is the Blockbuster Commercial for Blockbuster Total Access… [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=lamqPTAMFBg] YouTube: Blockbuster Super Bowl Commercial
I am in the process of getting my new domain, www.ffextensiongurublog.info setup with the blog. I have been experiencing some issues with the DNS servers tonight so the new domain may not be working for some people. Hopefully this will clear itself up shortly, but may take up to 48 hours for some of the servers to update. Once the DNS issues are resolved you should be able to access the blog using the new www.ffextensiongurublog.info address. With the new domain name setup, the address in the address bar remains static regardless of where in the blog you are. Because…
The next developers milestone for Firefox 3, Alpha 2 has been released. It is important to note this release is only for web developers and the Mozilla testing community. Also important Gecko 1.9 does not support the following out-dated OS’s, Win95, Win98, WinMe, and Mac OS 10.2. Some new feature with this release: Resolved remaining issues with ACID2 test compliance. Support for the Web Apps 1.0 API for changing stylesheets. XML documents can now be rendered as they’re downloaded instead of only after the full document has been loaded. Greatly improved Mac widgets support since Alpha 1. Improvements in the…
Skimming through the notes from yesterdays Mozilla Weekly Update meeting I did notice a brief mention on the Major Update feature: “Major update still scheduled for 1-2 weeks after the release of 1.5.0.10/2.0.0.2” As it stands now the tentative release date for the 1.5.0.10/2.0.0.2 builds is February 15th. However, given the difficulties in getting this release out, chances are this will end up being pushed back. There are still two major bugs blocking these releases. The developers had hoped to have these bugs fixed by last Thursday (02/01/07) so the RC could be released later that week. Then that was…
With the recent release of Windows Vista, comes a new PC vs MAC ad demonstrating the new security feature of Windows Vista. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FF_aT_mE8] Now imagine if you would trying to install, setup and run Firefox on Windows Vista… You are about to install a non-Microsoft application (Mozilla Firefox). Cancel or Allow? You are about to run a non-Microsoft application (firefox.exe). Cancel or Allow? You are trying to use a non-Microsoft web browser (Mozilla Firefox) to connect to the Internet. Cancel or Allow? You are about to make a non-Microsoft web browser (Mozilla Firefox) your default browser. Cancel or Allow? You…
At the time of this post, the Mozilla Weekly Update Meeting is still in progress. But there is some news (good and bad) I wanted to write about now for these future Fx releases. The bad new is there are still two bugs the developers are trying to get patched for this release: Arbitrary code execution by using javascript: url with <img> tag. menupopup.showPopup() can be abused The good news is all the Vista bugs, including Yahoo! IM and default browser (thanks to Robert Strong) are patched and ready to go. Even better the fix for the Firefox Password Manager…