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Forecast Fox was updated to 0.7.9 today. The Firefox extension now uses AccuWeather for it's weather data. It previously used weather.com. I've been a big fan of weather.com for years, but the free version of the site has become nearly unusable. There are too many adds, and important data is hard to access. AccuWeather.com is very clean to use, and now my weather site of choice.

If you you're using Mozilla Firefox, you should install this killer extension.

Here are some more of my weather links.

Posted by Steve at 06:31 PM | Permalink

The Firefox ad was published in the New York Times today. If you look really close you'll see my name.

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Posted by Steve at 07:18 AM | Permalink

Today's the day. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released.

Posted by Steve at 08:51 AM | Permalink

From Asa:

"We're very, very close to zarro boogs on the Firefox 1.0 blocker list. If all goes well this evening, we might have our first candidate build tomorrow. If that happens, we'll need a few days to test out over the weekend and could have the Firefox 1.0 release candidate shipping early next week.

We expect these upcoming RC builds to be complete and if we don't find anything new and scary, they'll become the Firefox 1.0 builds.

With 1.0 close at hand, these candidate builds are not intended for general Preview Release users. If you're interested in helping us test these near-final bits, then we're glad to have it but we certainly don't expect PR users to migrate to the RC builds with 1.0 just around the corner.

Stay tuned here for more information. We're getting very, very close."

Posted by Steve at 07:08 AM | Permalink

October 1, 2004. The Mozilla Foundation releases an important security update for Firefox. All users should upgrade to the latest version of the Firefox Preview Release. A patch is available for current Preview Release users.

Download information:

* Visit the Firefox homepage to download the latest version of Firefox Preview Release (Firefox 0.10.1)
* Current Firefox Preview Release users: when the update icon () appears in the upper right corner of your screen, just click on it to install the patch, or click here to install it.

I was able to upgrade Firefox .10 using software update in the application.

Posted by Steve at 09:16 AM | Permalink

Firefox.com now takes you to the spread firefox community page.

Also of interest, Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is now available. Download it and give it a try. This new realease packs a ton of new features like improved pop-up blocking, RSS reader, and Find Bar. Firefox 1.0 Final should be out in just a few months.

Release Notes

Posted by Steve at 08:37 AM | Permalink

I really hate it when simple things get needlessly complicated. Our MOC uses Microsoft Internet Explorer pretty much no stop throughout the day for access to several military web applications. Most of the sites are https.

For some reason, https browsing just stops working randomly. To fix it, I have to launch gpedit.msc to click on disable system cryptology, enable it, and then reboot. I have to do this once a day.

Today the problem got worse, instead of having all https sites break; only one did, and the usual fix didn’t work.

I’m not sure how to fix it. I’d like to re-install IE 6.0, but that’s not going to happen, because the browser is so integrated with windows xp. You could even say the windows XP IS Internet Explorer.

So the fix was to install Mozilla Firefox. I really like the fact that if Firfox breaks, I can simply delete it, and re-install. Its one of many great things about Firefox, you can re-install it.

I’m not trying to sound like one of those Mac switchers that make simple personal computing tasks sound like brain surgery, but in this case a simple task was way too hard!

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This new extension allows you to see a sites Google Page rank in Firefox.

Posted by Steve at 01:23 PM | Permalink

I took some screenshots that show the work that's being done in the 0.9 Branch Builds.

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You can download the latest version of firefox 0.9.2 from download.com.

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Posted by Steve at 09:43 PM | Permalink

My new favorite firefox extension.

Single Window 1.0 can be configured so external links can be set to open in a new tab instead of the currently active tab.

This is really handy when you open URLs from your mail or chat client. Instead of having several browser windows open, you just have open window with several tabs.

Continue reading "Firefox Extension: Single Window 1.0" »

Posted by Steve at 02:18 PM | Permalink

Wired News reports: Following the outbreak of the Download.ject virus, US-CERT and the Dept of Homeland Security are advising against the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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Posted by Steve at 08:57 AM | Permalink

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 was released today. This dot release features an updated theme and serveral fixes to the new extension manager.

Posted by Steve at 07:09 AM | Permalink

Ben Goodger writes, "Candidates Here - version number still reads "0.9" but these are the 0.9 builds. Please test EM for stopping bugs. This will probably go out Monday. I'd announce this on mz's forums but they're down."

Firefox 0.9.1 will feature a new theme and several bug fixes.

Update: Kevin Gerich, one of the designers of winstripe has posted a detailed article on his weblog about the new version of winstripe.

Posted by Steve at 07:07 AM | Permalink

Ben Goodger has announced that Firefox 0.9.1 will be out soon. This will be a bugfix point release, mostly fixing Extension Manager bugs. Winstripe (the default theme) will also be updated.

Update: Here is a screenshot of the new version of winstripe that will be in Firefox 0.9.1. This the theme is awesome. I'm really looking forward to the official release of Firefox 0.9.1.

Posted by Steve at 11:49 PM | Permalink

Here's a comparison between Camino 0.8 and Firefox 0.9 for the mac.

Posted by Steve at 06:21 AM | Permalink

The Roadmap for Mozilla Thunderbird was just updated. It shows the upcoming features for 0.8, 0.9, and 1.0. The release date for 1.0 is early September 2004.

The Mozilla Firefox roadmap also forcasts a release data of September 2004.

Posted by Steve at 10:12 PM | Permalink

Thunderbird is a stand alone mail program based of the mail component of Mozilla 1.7. This is yet another example that the future of mozilla is not in the mozilla suite, but in small, user friendly apps.

Scott MacGregor writes "The Mozilla Foundation released Thunderbird 0.7 today. New features include a smaller download size, significant performance improvements on all platforms, a new themes and extensions manager, and many bug fixes and other improvements. More on what's new can be found in the Mozilla Foundation's press release.

"Thunderbird now has promotional website banner images and a signature campaign which users can leverage to help spread the Thunderbird word. Read More."

"Builds are currently available from the Thunderbird releases page, along with the current set of Release Notes, or directly from the 0.7 directory on ftp.mozilla.org."

Posted by Steve at 06:27 PM | Permalink

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 was released last night. This is a huge release of an already great web browser. If you are not already using firefox, you should definetly download it now, and get rid of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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Posted by Steve at 06:59 AM | Permalink

The Mac Version of Firefox has new version of Pinstripe. I didn't care for the last version on Pinstripe on the Mac, but this new one is beautiful. The new icons seem to flow much better with Mac OS X. It looks more like a Mac application. I now understand what the firefox developers where after when the decided to switch themes from qute to winstripe. Excellent work, guys!

Posted by Steve at 06:35 AM | Permalink

Ben Goodger writes: "A testing candidate of Mozilla Firefox 0.9 is now available from mozilla.org. There are a couple more bugs we'd like to fix for the 0.9 release but want to get as much feedback on the app in general before we go out. Please download this build and test with it and report any show stopping bugs that you find. We are still looking to do a 0.9 final sometime Monday." Builds can be found on the FTP site.

This new release is awesome. It has a new default theme. The profile directory has moved from Phoenix to Mozilla\Firebird. The release notes are available.

If you miss the Qute theme, you can download it from Arvid's website.

getfirefox.com

Posted by Steve at 07:17 AM | Permalink

It's official. There is a new default theme in firefox. I've downloaded the lastest hourly build from BEAST.

I've done a screen by screen comparison between today's build and a build from 6/3/2004 that sported a new version of Qute.

I must admit I was disappointed when I heard that Qute was to be replaced. However, the new theme is slowly growing on me. I hope they do the same thing with thunderbird.

Update: Firefox 0.9.1 will feature a new theme and several bug fixes.

Posted by Steve at 10:59 AM | Permalink

Ben Goodger's post on mozillazine forums gives an estimated release date of June 12 or June 14 for firefox 0.9. Here are the minutes for the last meeting.

In a recent interview with neowin, Ben Goodger, the chief developer of firefox, said that this would be their "biggest release yet."

Firebird 0.9 will feature a new default theme. The new theme closely resembles the pinstripe theme developed for the Mac OS X version of firefox. A decision was made to develop a homegrown theme developed by Kevin Gerich and Stephen Horlander instead of using the one created by Arvid Axelsson. Here's an email from Ben Goodger to Arvid Axelsson on this matter.

If you can't wait until June 14th. You can download the lastest nightly branch build which sould be pretty close to Mozilla Firefox 0.9. There are only 14 open bugs that block the release of Mozilla 0.9. I also expect an RC on Tuedsay.

If you're not already using Firefox as your default web browser, check out this article by Ben Goodger that explains why you should. Also here is an excellent introduction to firefox.

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