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So what about me? I’m an ex-Cold War submariner in my late forties who spent most of his life in computers, peripherals, R&D and anything else technical that they could throw at me. The rest of the time was spent writing, working my own small, mobile sound production studio and riding around on Harley [...]
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IE 7.0 final sneaked out
The IE 7.0 team at Microsoft put the final version of IE 7.0 on the streets before most people realized it (the sneaks). Announced earlier that the final would be available via MS’s Automatic Updates, a “sneak up behind you and tap you on the shoulder” early release was offered as a download from MS’s [...]
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Also tagged browsers, Firefox, internet, performancing, security, things
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Firefox 2 theme updated
Which fox to use I say.
I have a number of foxes that reside on my desktop these days. Somehow I just can’t get away from my past of which beta testing was one of my favorite things to do. I no longer do that type of testing professionally but there are more than enough ways [...]
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Also tagged Firefox, internet, things, Wordpress
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Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1 released??
Well… not quite, but almost. Read the quote below from the Mozilla Developer news site:
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/200…
Due to the number of outstanding blocking bugs targeted at beta 1, and the delay in getting a L10N functional NSIS installer working, the Beta 1 milestone will be slipping a little bit:
Code Freeze: Wednesday, July 5th, 11:59 PDT [...]
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Also tagged bugzilla, Firefox, Holidays, performancing, PHP, things, Wordpress
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Go figure…
You could have never convinced me if you tried. I would never have thought that I’d migrate away from Internet Explorer and Outlook Express no matter how anemic they were getting to be. The fact was, they just worked. That’s about all they did but they did work. So what if Internet Explorer had to [...]
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Also tagged browsers, Firefox, internet, security, things, UK
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Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1 released??
Posted in my old “BackWoods Tech” blog now defunct.
Well… not quite, but almost. Read the quote below from the Mozilla Developer news site:
Code freeze
Due to the number of outstanding blocking bugs targeted at beta 1, and the delay in getting a L10N functional NSIS installer working, the Beta 1 milestone will be slipping a little [...]
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Also tagged bugzilla, Firefox, Holidays, performancing, PHP, things
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The wonderful world of extensions
orWhat does this button do again?
I read some where in my virtual travels that there was a Firefox “power” user out there somewhere that actually had 52 different extensions loaded into his FF browser and another that went for the record of 100+. The thing that really piques my interest though is that this [...]