Category Archives: Year In Review

Happy Birthday to Us!
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Posted on May 1, 2011 by

On May 1, 2006, a blog was born. The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog that is. We debuted on Blogger but within a few months moved over to WordPress. The big Firefox news back in 2005 was the upcoming Firefox 2.0 … Continue reading →

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2010 in review
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Posted on January 1, 2011 by

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap 2010
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Posted on December 31, 2010 by

Happy New Year’s Eve! It is that time again, time for our annual look back at the Firefox releases of this year. In 2010 we saw with retirement of the Firefox 3.0 branch which had been active since the first … Continue reading →

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BYIR: October, November & December 2008
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Posted on January 2, 2009 by

October 2008 Three new Get A Mac ads: Bake Sale – PC finds a creative way to get money to fix Vista’s problems. Bean Counter – Who says you can’t fix a problem by throwing money at it? V-Word – … Continue reading →

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BYIR: July, August & September 2008
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Posted on December 25, 2008 by

July 2008 In early July came the official word The Firefox 3 Download Day set a world record with 8,002,530 downloads within the 24-hour period. On July 1st, Firefox 2.0.0.15 was released. In mid-July came the first update for Firefox … Continue reading →

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BYIR: April, May & June 2008
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Posted on December 21, 2008 by

April 2008 April brought several add-on reviews: Abduction – an extension for taking screenshots within the Firefox browser. Domain Lookup – added a context menu item to check the availability of domain names based on the highlighted text. New Tab … Continue reading →

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BYIR: January, February & March 2008
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by

January 2008 With the start of 2008 came a handy “how-to” guide for moving Netscape 9 users to Firefox 2. Recall, AOL had announced they would discontinue support for Netscape 9 (based off of Firefox 2) in February 2008. While … Continue reading →

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2008 Blog Year In Review
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by

2008 Blog Year in Review (BYIR) January, February and March April, May and June July, August and September October, November and December

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A Message From The Guru
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Posted on November 27, 2008 by

First off, a Happy Thanksgiving from The Guru. This long weekend also marks the start of The Blog Year in Review 2008. Going to do this a little different this year as for formatting. Instead of doing 1-month per post … Continue reading →

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Blog Year in Review: December 2007
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Posted on January 1, 2008 by

December, for the most part was a rather uneventful month (other than the Blog Year In Review). The only big news was the (premature) release of Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 about a week before Christmas. I still say the developers … Continue reading →

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