Monthly Archives: July 2011

Firefox Release Recap: July 30, 2011
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Posted on July 30, 2011 by

Just Released Firefox 6.0 Beta 3 – July 25, 2011 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 … Continue reading →

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Dumb People Use Internet Explorer
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Posted on July 29, 2011 by

…at least that was this survey of 100,000 people says from Vancouver, B.C.-based AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting. Source: Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog  

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Six cool things to do with your USB flash drive
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Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Here are six cool things you can do with your USB flash drive, in our series roundup of “What to do with your USB flash drive.” Each item is linked with step-by-step instructions.Just pop it into a host computer and … Continue reading →

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Mozilla to Develop Mobile OS
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Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Mozilla has announced plans for its own Mobile OS, Boot to Gecko or B2G for short. This is going to be somewhat based off the Android platform, but unlike the Android platform, B2G is going to be fully open source.The … Continue reading →

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Firefox 6.0 Beta 3 Released
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Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Mozilla has pushed out Beta 3 for Firefox 6 on the Beta channel. If you are already using Firefox 6 Beta 1 or 2 go to Help > About Firefox to update to Beta 3. Otherwise you may obtain Firefox … Continue reading →

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An Emotional Connection To Their Firefox?
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Posted on July 25, 2011 by

At least that is what one person is purposing with Bug 661075. Flashbacks to Office 97 with Clippy come to mind (and ironically he/it is mentioned). I do like Comment 5 where the user feels Firefox is “a prosthetic limb … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: July 23, 2011
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Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 6.0 Beta 3 – TBD Future Releases Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final Release – August 16th Firefox 6 for Mobile Final Release – August 16th Firefox 7 Beta (7.0b1) … Continue reading →

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Mozilla jumps to deal with Google Toolbar demise
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Posted on July 22, 2011 by

I don’t use the toolbar but I do use this and it may  come in handy for those who do.I didn’t realize how many services Google had. Display all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving dropdown menu next to … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Browsers, Firefox, Google | 4 Comments

Comcast locks Mac/Firefox to its own home page
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Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Mac users. …his home page had been changed to comcast.net, and that the Comcast software had modified his Firefox profile so that there was no way to change the home page setting.“I contacted Comcast; they initially blamed the problem on … Continue reading →

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Clarification: Firefox 3.6.19/5.0.1
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Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Mozilla did an emergency update for Firefox 3.6 & 5.0 on July 11th. There was an automatic update for Mac user only. While Mozilla did also publish Firefox 3.6.19 and 5.0.1 to the FTP site as well as at getfirefox.com … Continue reading →

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