Monthly Archives: April 2011

Firefox Release Recap: April 2011 Week 2
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Posted on April 16, 2011 by

Just Released Firefox 5 Aurora – April 14th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.19 – April 26th Firefox 3.6.17 – April 26th Firefox 4 Macaw (4.0.1) – April 26th Firefox 5 Beta – May 17th Firefox 6 … Continue reading →

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Firefox 5.0 Aurora (Alpha 2) Released
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Mozilla has released the first Aurora build of Firefox 5,  Alpha 2 on April 12th. Firefox 5 is the first release being done under Mozilla’s new aggressive development plan.  Here is how the plan works, there are 4 stages or … Continue reading →

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A Quick Glance at Firefox in 2011
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by

So back in February I posted about Mozilla’s new release schedule for Firefox in 2011. At that time the actual schedule hadn’t been fully drawn up yet as they were waiting on the release of Firefox 4. Now, I did … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 Code Names
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Mozilla has a code name for each of the major Firefox  builds usually named after national parks. Firefox 3.6 was Namoroka (National Park in Madagascar) while Firefox 4.0 is Tumucumaque (National Park in Brazil). Starting with Firefox 4, each release … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 RSS Feeds
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by

I don’t think I mentioned this change before. In Firefox 4, the orange RSS feed icon that used to appear in the address bar for sites that had feed has been removed. In its place, is a new ‘Subscribe’ toolbar … Continue reading →

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Forcing Addons in Nightly 6.0a1
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Okay, Mozilla is doing some funky things right now with the new update process. For those of you still on the Nightly (your Firefox button will now show Nightly instead of Minefield) builds, you likely noticed you just got bumped … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4.0.1 (Macaw) Coming
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Posted on April 12, 2011 by

The first update for Firefox 4.0 is scheduled for release later this month. Firefox 4.0.1 code named Macaw (yes, Mozilla is now giving the updates code names as well) is scheduled for April 26th. Further updates for Firefox 3.5 and … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: April 2011 Week 1
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Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.19 – April 26th Firefox 3.6.17 – April 26th Firefox Macaw (4.0.1) – April 26th

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How To Work With Multiple Spell Checking Dictionaries
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Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Firefox by default ships with a spell checking dictionary that matches the language version of the browser. If you download the Firefox US release you end up with the US-English dictionary for instance. This usually works out of the box … Continue reading →

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Wiki Updated
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Posted on April 2, 2011 by

When I brought the Wiki over at the beginning of the year, I didn’t do much with it other than get it setup on the WordPress platform. It had been moved from MediaWiki, which is the same platform that Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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