Category Archives: Microsoft

Firefox vs Chrome Versions
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Posted on February 19, 2012 by

I keep hearing many complaints on how Mozilla is moving too fast with the Firefox updates with Rapid Release. I have said time and time again, that nothing has changed, other than the numbering. Mozilla was releasing updates every six … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Logo
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Posted on February 18, 2012 by

As we had posted earlier this week there had been rumors of a new ‘Windows 8′ logo coming. It is now official, Microsoft posted the new logo (as seen below along with the past logos) on Friday afternoon. So the … Continue reading →

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Flash Update — Check Your Plugins
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Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Adobe released an update to Flash on February 15th to address an exploit that affected Internet Exploiter users. Even if you don’t use IE, you should still update your Flash plugins. Also this would a good time to check on … Continue reading →

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Changes to Firefox ‘Updates’ Coming
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Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Big changes are coming to the way Firefox updates. With these improvements users are going to be able to start running the updated version and the update process is going to be a lot smoother for Windows Vista and 7 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, General Mozilla, Microsoft, Vista, Windows, Windows 7 | 1 Comment

New ‘Windows’ Logo For Windows 8?
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Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Found this over on Tom’s Hardware and it has me wondering. First off, keep in mind nothing has been officially released by Microsoft, but rumors are that they are going to give the Windows Logo a makeover for the upcoming … Continue reading →

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Firefox for Metro Planned
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Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Interesting post over on Tom’s Hardware about Mozilla’s plan to create a special Firefox to support the upcoming Windows 8 (or whatever Microsoft ends up calling it) Metro Interface. For those not quite familiar with the planned Metro, interface it … Continue reading →

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64-bit Varients – Windows
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Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7By Howard Wen, Network World February 13, 2012 08:08 AM ET Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon … Continue reading →

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Future of Firefox: Firefox 3.6, 10.0, ESR and beyond
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by

There has been a lot happening this week with Firefox and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far: Firefox 3.6.26 Released Firefox 10.0 Desktop and Android … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox For Android, Fx 10.0, Fx 13.0, General Mozilla, Microsoft, Windows | Leave a comment

Update: Windows 2000/XP SP1 Support Ending
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Back in July we wrote that support for Windows 2000 and XP SP1 would be ending with the Firefox 8 release (November 8, 2011) due to Mozilla moving to C++ 2010 compiler. Firefox 10 was released on January 31st and … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 12.0, Fx 13.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Microsoft, Windows | 1 Comment

Silent Updates Moving Forward
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Posted on January 17, 2012 by

From the January 9th, 2012 Mozilla Weekly Status meeting was mention that “The biggest piece of Silent Update landed: a Windows service so updates don’t require UAC prompts.” The link takes you to the feature page, but really doesn’t provide … Continue reading →

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