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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC1

Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 has come and gone without a word from me. To catch you up, all but two of my fifteen extensions are working now: ReloadEvery and Wikipedia. Someone on my earlier post mentioned they had a working copy of ReloadEvery, but I may just end up removing it from my extension list. [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

It’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten how fun it is to upgrade my browser. Sure, we’ve had the security updates, but there’ve really been no new features for almost a year.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 changes all that with a slew of new bells and whistles, including a super-simple “Clear Private Data” dialog, better [...]

Nudge, Nudge

I’ve installed the excellent “Spread Firefox Wordpress plugin”:http://www.martinet.nl/wp-site/spread-firefox-wordpress-plugin and I’m having a lot of fun with it. I’ve used it to add a fairly unobtrusive bar across the top of my site (it only appears in Internet Explorer) to alert IE users to the inferiority of their browser. It shouldn’t get in anyone’s way, though [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2

Firefox 1.0.2 was released about an hour ago. According to “Asa”:http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007795.html, it’s a “proactive update to fix a bug that makes users vulnerable to a buffer overflow in GIF image processing.”
It probably won’t show up on auto-update for a few days, so if you like being on the leading edge, you should download it from [...]

Firefox Article in the New York Times

I laughed out loud a few times while reading this:
* The Fox Is in Microsoft’s Henhouse (and Salivating)
If you don’t want to register with NYT, you can read the full article on “c|net News.com”:http://news.com.com/The+fox+is+in+Microsofts+henhouse+and+salivating/2100-1032_3-5497057.html.

My Fifteen Minutes

Tech Recap

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and many important things have happened in the tech world.
First off, “Thunderbird 1.0″:http://www.getthunderbird.com has been released. I haven’t noticed much in the way of new features since 0.7, but it seems to be extremely stable and sports a stylish new default theme (although that may have debuted in [...]

Mozilla Firefox

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After much anticipation, Mozilla Firefox was released today — no longer a “technology preview,” but a full-blown, stable release version. More amazing than that, for the first time I was able to run a flawless update using the new updater!
I couldn’t be more excited about this release. It’s great to be able to whole-heartedly [...]

RC1

Firefox is a step closer to coming out of beta. Version 1.0 RC1 was released this morning, but it’s not a regular update. If you’d like to test it out, see the “software update “:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/qa/softwareupdate.html page.
I’ll probably wait to install it tomorrow morning. I should have a little time then to write a review if [...]

Two Words

A friend of mine has been using Firefox for a few months now. Today he popped up on my instant messenger and asked me:
bq. Joey… in two words, what is the best thing about firefox? My friend is looking over my shoulder, and I’m not the biggest advocate… I’m not even sure why I use [...]