Posted by Kirk M on 06 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
Just a quick update on the impending release date of Firefox 3 beta 3 and a surprising turn around time for beta 4 as well:
The targeted release date for Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now February 11 and follow on Beta 4 is “tentatively” scheduled for February 26, according to Firefox meeting release notes posted [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
I updated my trunk build of Firefox 3 with the usual nightly update and lo and behold, instead of "Version 3.0b3pre" staring out of the update dialog box, the nightly builds had shifted to "Version3.0b4pre". This should mean that Firefox 3 beta 3 should be hitting the streets in the next day or so if [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 30 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
Found a bit more of the visual refresh for Firefox 3 in place when I downloaded the latest update to the nightly builds this morning and it looks like the new "Back and Forward" buttons are in place. I noticed these buttons, especially the Back button, were a bit on the pixilated side and [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 28 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
It’s beginning to look a lot like a different looking Firefox is just around the corner with the first hints of the new visual refresh showing up in the nightly builds. Now what you see at the left is the beginnings of the refresh that will be seen when used on Windows XP and as [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 19 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
Some of you may already know that I love tinkering with new software. Some of you are rolling their eyes at that last statement which simply means you know me better than most. I just can’t seem to keep my paws off the newest developer’s builds of the software I’m currently using. Not everything mind [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 13 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek
Just a short note here to let anyone whose been searching for a way to make that favorite Firefox extension, Adblock Plus work in Firefox 3 beta 2 need look no further than Mozilla’s Firefox Add-Ons site. The [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 12 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
Time to take another look at who’s using what browser to view my own small corner of the Blogosphere here at Just Thinkin’. I did this once back in November when a mad desire to know what kind of browser was being used to view my site overwhelmed me into finding such out and posting [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 12 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Firefox/Thunderbird
Firefox 3 beta 2 is scheduled to be released around the 21st of this month according to Mozilla Developer Center’s Dev News. I’ve been doing my own personal testing of the nightly builds which just changed to beta 3 this morning.
What I can tell you about this major upgrade to what’s slowly but steadily becoming [...] Read more »
