Archive for Monday, July 9, 2025

Weekly Update 2007-07-09

Posted: Monday, July 9, 2025 by El Guru in Add-ons, Blogs, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Mozilla News, Thunderbird

This week’s meeting has brought a lot of big news and not just the usual Firefox/Thunderbird. Firefox/Thunderbird Builds TBird 1.5.0.13/Fx 2.0.0.5 - Code freeze scheduled for this Friday (07/13) with a targeted release date of 07/31. TBird 3 - Begin phasing out the old Talkback on this weeks trunk builds. Will be replaced with Breakpad [...]

Fx Logo Engraved MacBook Pro

Posted: Monday, July 9, 2025 by El Guru in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Mozilla News

Mozilla is currently auctioning off a couple MacBook Pro’s, one [eBay item 170128089933] has a laser etched Firefox logo similar to the picture here. This is being done to promote the newly launched Mozilla Firefox eBay Edition, a special Firefox 2 release bundled with the Firefox Companion for eBay, an extension that allows users to [...]

Fixed Broken Feed Subscriber

Posted: Monday, July 9, 2025 by El Guru in Blog News

This is one of those ‘I wonder how long it was broken?’ kinda things. It seems my custom Subscribe Now! widget was broken. Now when you click on the RSS logo in the sidebar (under the Subscribe Now header) depending on how your browser handles feeds it will either: A new tab/window will open to [...]

UPDATE: Installing Add-ons in TBird

Posted: Monday, July 9, 2025 by El Guru in Add-ons, Thunderbird, Tips & Tweaks

In the Installing Add-ons in TBird entry, I put together a very comprehensive step-by-step list to install add-ons. All along I was think ‘there has to be a simpler way to do this.’ Well, there is according to this comment from CHR: As far as I know, one could still drag & drop the extension [...]