Monthly Archives: July 2011

A Look At the Electrosis Project
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Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Goals for multi-process firefox “Since the release of Firefox 4 we’ve been working again to bring multi-process content support to Firefox. I thought that it would be good to write a post to try to lay out some of the … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: July 16, 2011
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Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Just Released Firefox 3.6.19 (Mac Only Update) – July 11th Firefox 5.0.1 (Mac Only Update) – July 11th Firefox 6.0 Beta 2 – July 15th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.20 – August 16th Firefox 6 Final … Continue reading →

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Firefox 6.0 Beta 2 Released
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Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Mozilla has pushed out Beta 2 for Firefox 6 on the Beta channel. If you are already using Firefox 6 Beta 1 go to Help > About Firefox to update to Beta 2. Otherwise you may obtain Firefox 6.0b2 from … Continue reading →

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Progress on Win64-Bit Firefox
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Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Some progress to report on the future of Win64-Bit Firefox as reported on CNET News Deep Tech. Release engineer Armen Zambrano Gasparnian, who took early steps for 64-bit Firefox support last year, is on the case again. “We now have … Continue reading →

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EOL for Firefox 3.6?
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Posted on July 13, 2011 by

At the July 11th Weekly Update Meeting, it was announced that there is currently not a planned End of Life (EOL) for Firefox 3.6, at this time. Plans are to go ahead with the 3.6.20 release (was 3.6.19 which is … Continue reading →

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Cookies: The silent snoop on your PC
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Posted on July 12, 2011 by

This is two paragraphs of a long article. He mentions flash cookies which you can get rid of. Last month, the British advertising giant WPP boasted that it had just created the world’s largest database of individuals’ online behaviour: profiles … Continue reading →

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BootMed
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Posted on July 12, 2011 by

I’m downloading this later. Certainly looks like a useful tool.I retrieved some files from a partition I messed up recently using BrowserLinux and that was as simple as moving them from one folder to another but this is much more.I … Continue reading →

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Aurora Channel may be open to Firefox For Mobile
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Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Currently Mobile Firefox users can either use the most current version of Firefox or that in the Beta Channel. At the July 11th Weekly Status Meeting, there was discussion of opening an Aurora Channel for Firefox for Mobile.

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Firefox 3.6.19/5.0.1 Coming (Mac Only)
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Posted on July 11, 2011 by

There are a couple issues related to Firefox 3.6 & 5.0 and Mac OSX 10.7 as described on the Mozilla Product’s Blog: There is a bug present in the upcoming release of OSX 10.7 that causes Firefox to crash when … Continue reading →

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Google Shortcuts Extension
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Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Lot of stuff available with this. I had no idea there were this many services available.I’ve only just started tweaking it but am liking it already for the easy access to my Google site and mail. Display all Google services … Continue reading →

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