Category Archives: Firefox/Thunderbird

My thoughts about Firefox and Thunderbird.

Best Day at Just Thinkin’-June 17th, 2008

By Kirk M | Published June 19, 2008

So what does it take to achieve the best day ever as far as unique visitors go? How about a single post about a certain popular Firefox extension and another on how to disable extension compatibility in Firefox? Yup that’s it; 1852 visitors with only a 50% bounce rate on Firefox Download-frickin’-Day–1783 visitors on the [...]

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Code Complete!

By Kirk M | Published May 12, 2008

The developers at Mozilla have handed off the final code for the upcoming Firefox RC1 to "Build" this morning:
Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today (Saturday, May 10th) we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New nightly builds are available – if [...]

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Firefox 3 RC1 Next Week?

By Kirk M | Published May 7, 2008

For those of you who are anxiously awaiting the first release candidate of Firefox 3 (like me) it looks like the wait will soon be over. Checking the latest RC1 blockers (bugs that are currently blocking the release candidate) shows only 4 remaining bugs to squash before RC1 can get itself out of the trunk. [...]

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Keeping an Eye on Firefox 3 RC1

By Kirk M | Published April 26, 2008

Checking in my stats the last few days I’ve noticed quite a few folks looking for information on the first release candidate of Firefox 3 and possibly when the release date might be. Well, the closest the developers will get on an actual date is “sometime in May” and since the date for the final [...]

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Mozilla squashes Firefox 3 Flash Bug

By Kirk M | Published April 24, 2008

This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek

Adobe’s Flash plugin for Firefox has never offered the kind of quality performance that the equivalent plugin for Internet Explorer has but at least it handled most Flash based video fairly well. However, somewhere around the 14th of [...]

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Getting off the Trunk-Firefox 3 RC1 Upcoming Release

By Kirk M | Published April 14, 2008

I’ll be getting off the Trunk here real soon now. After several months of using the nightly builds of Firefox 3 (called "Minefield"), the first release candidate went into lockdown on April 8th which basically means no more new feature or function changes, beat any showstoppers into submission, send to build and QA, QA, QA.
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Lousy Streaming Video in Firefox? Don’t Blame the Browser.

By Kirk M | Published April 12, 2008

So you’re trying to watch an old Star Trek episode on the CBS Classic TV Shows site using Firefox (2 or 3) but much to your dismay you find that the video is choppy and dropping frames, ruining your plan to go where no man has gone before. You also might realize that suddenly your [...]

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Firefox 3 beta 5 Right Around the Corner?

By Kirk M | Published March 27, 2008

The fifth beta of Firefox is nearly here by what my nightly trunk builds tell me. Why is that you ask? Well, take a look at this:

What that boring little image above tells you, if you follow the blue arrow, that there is no longer any "b5pre" tacked onto the end of "3.0". Also, [...]

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