Tag Archives: Firefox

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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Minding the Store Once Again

By Kirk M | Published March 11, 2008

I’m off to the quilt shop again this morning since with the coming of Eastern Daylight Time this year also comes the start of Laurie’s busy season which usually runs from about this time of the year to January 1st of next year.
After the severe bout of Mad Baby Disease we’ve been through (the disease, [...]

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Firefox 3 beta 4 Hits the Streets

By Kirk M | Published March 10, 2008

Just so everyone knows, earlier today Mozilla put up the official release of Firefox 3 beta 4 on their FTP servers and just recently updated the official download page so those who’ve been waiting can now download the new beta here. For an in depth look at what this new beta is all about, [...]

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Firefox 3 beta 4 Soon-Beta 5 in the Trunk

By Kirk M | Published March 4, 2008

Looks like Firefox 3 beta 4 will be released soon since as of this morning, the update to the nightly builds (trunk) has now gone to "Minefield/3.0b5pre". A fifth beta has become necessary due to an outstanding 200 bugs that still need to be fixed. This is not nearly as bad as it might sound [...]

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Forums, Wikis and Bugzilla, Oh My!

By Kirk M | Published February 22, 2008

I finally dredged up the courage to join two rather scary groups over the last few days. Well, at least somewhat put-offish for me to say the least. And those two groups are Mozilla’s Bugzilla and the (shudder) WordPress Codex. Now the problem for me isn’t the fact that I’m not a developer nor programmer [...]

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Firefox 3’s Places-Drag and Drop Fixed in Nightly Builds

By Kirk M | Published February 17, 2008

Drag and drop in Firefox 3’s "Places" Library (the old "Organize Bookmarks") now works properly at last or at least in today’s nightly build it does. Everyday for the last week or so the first thing I’ve done after the update to the nightly build installs itself is to head to the "Library" ("Show all [...]

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Firefox 3 beta 3: Disabling Extension Compatibility Check

By Kirk M | Published February 14, 2008

For those of you that decided to try out Firefox 3 beta 3 and are pining away for their favorite plugins that may not currently be compatible with the new release, here’s a fairly easy workaround for disabling Firefox’s extension compatibility check…
Notice: This post is now badly out of date. Please read the updated post [...]

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