Monthly Archives: November 2011

Ubuntu will now track Mozilla updates
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Posted on November 29, 2011 by

The Ubuntu developers are now tracking Mozilla’s rapid release cycle, releasing the updated version 8.0 of Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird. Previously, Ubuntu distributions would have stuck with the major version they were released with, say 3.0, and only updated to … Continue reading →

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Firefox 8.0.1: JAVA & Mac Crashes Continue
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Posted on November 29, 2011 by

I knew it seemed like things were a bit too quiet. Turns out, the email stopped working Wednesday night or Thursday morning.  Last night I started getting some emails on Bug 701537 (Tracking bug for build and release of Firefox … Continue reading →

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Not much news
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Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Not sure if folks are still recovering from ODing on Turkey over the long weekend or given today is Cyber Monday, but not much news on the Firefox front. Even at today’s Mozilla Weekly meeting, not much to report. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 8.0 | 1 Comment

Thanksgiving Holiday
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Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Happy Thanksgiving. We will return to our normal blogging on Monday, November 28, 2011.

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Unhide Forward Button in Firefox 11
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Posted on November 23, 2011 by

For whatever reason, Mozilla has decided starting with Firefox 11 to hide the forward button when you can not go forward. For once, this is not something that Mozilla has copied from Google Chrome, as the forward button is always … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Google, Tips & Tweaks | 3 Comments

Firefox For Android Nightly switch to Native UI on 11-22-11
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Posted on November 23, 2011 by

Firefox 11.0 for Android Nightly (Fennec) builds beginning with the 11-22-11 nightly build will be on the new native UI. This build should be offered to Fennec users begining on 11-23-11. Note: Mozilla does not intend to update Honeycomb users … Continue reading →

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Follow-Up: Attack Page Mishap
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Posted on November 22, 2011 by

A quick follow-up to our Attack Page Mishap earlier this month. We have discovered the compromise was not with WordPress or the WP Backup Plugin, but instead with the ZenPhoto application. I use Zen Photo for the gallery on my … Continue reading →

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Scam: Facebook optimized Firefox
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Posted on November 22, 2011 by

…The scam, which tries to install a malicious .exe file onto a computer, claims that the new Facebook optimized version of Firefox is faster and easier to use… “ More  Computeractive – News Go get it.

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More Default Favicon Choices
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Posted on November 22, 2011 by

In the Replace Firefox Default Favicon post we mentioned a couple User Scripts by Rob64Rock that allowed you to replace the new (and unimproved) default Favicon (now a dashed square) for pages and bookmark that did not have a Favicon. … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment

Firefox 8.0.1 Released
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Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Mozilla has pushed out an emergency update to Firefox 8.0.0 on November 21st to select users. This update addressed two top crash bugs in Firefox 8.0.0: Bug 699134 – RoboForm versions 7.6.2 and OLDER on all platforms crashes Firefox 8.0 … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Linux, Mac, Releases, Windows | 1 Comment