Monthly Archives: August 2007

Weekly Update 2007-08-27
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Posted on August 27, 2007 by

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, General Mozilla, Thunderbird | 2 Comments

Firefox Campus Edition
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Posted on August 27, 2007 by

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 2.0, General Mozilla | 3 Comments

Sneak Peak: zunePhone
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Posted on August 25, 2007 by

Here’s a sneak peak of Microsoft’s zunePhone (a work in progress)…

Posted in Microsoft, Other | 1 Comment

Weekly Update 2007-08-20
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Posted on August 20, 2007 by

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – No report TBird 2.0.0.7 – No report TBird 1.5.0.13 – Going thru QA at this time and could be released this week TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) … Continue reading →

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Update: ThunderBrowser
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Posted on August 20, 2007 by

ThunderBrowser has a new site:  http://thunderbrowse.com/  also check out the ThunderBlog.

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Speed Up OpenOffice Launch
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Posted on August 15, 2007 by

One thing that bothers me about OpenOffice is it seems to take a long time to launch (not as bad Adobe Acrobat). Try these simple tweaks from an article (How to make OpenOffice run faster) I found on the CybertNet … Continue reading →

Posted in Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Tip: Change Default Text Editor in Fx
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Posted on August 14, 2007 by

By default Firefox uses Notepad its own viewer when viewing the source of a page (CTRL+U or View, Page Source or selecting View Page Source from the Context Menu). You can select which text editor (such as Notepad++) Firefox uses … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Tips & Tweaks | 18 Comments

Weekly Update 2007-08-13
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Posted on August 13, 2007 by

Here are the details of today’s (very short) Weekly Update meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.7 – Triage on-going no release date yet. TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.13 > 2.0.0.6) – Beta set for 8/13 with Major Update … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, General Mozilla, Thunderbird | 2 Comments

Tip: Removing Added Words From Fx Dictionary
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Posted on August 11, 2007 by

The built-in Spellcheck with Firefox 2 is great, but it is very easy to accidentally add a word to the dictionary that you didn’t want to. However, it is not so easy to remove the word or words added in … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Thunderbird, Tips & Tweaks | 15 Comments

Fx 3: Plugins added to Add-Ons UI
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Posted on August 11, 2007 by

The latest nightly builds of Fx 3 have now added Plugins to the add-ons UI (which previously only contained Extensions and Themes). This allows users to enable and disable the installed plug-ins much easier than before. However as Percy points … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox | 3 Comments