“…Several readers reported to heise Security that Norton Antivirus and Internet Security from Symantec both issued a security alert and pushed various files into quarantine after they installed the latest Firefox update which in turn caused Firefox to malfunction….” The … Continue reading
Update: Thanks to Ken Saunders for the suggestion to use 7-Zip instead of WinRAR. Using 7-Zip greatly simplifies this process. I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.7a6pe today (more on this in another post). Everything was going fairly well until I … Continue reading
Just Released Firefox 3.5.10 - June 22, 2025 Firefox 3.6.4 - June 22, 2025 Firefox 3.6.6 - June 26, 2025 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.11 - July 20, 2025 Firefox 3.6.7 - July 20, 2025 Firefox … Continue reading
Mozilla has released the fourth (there was no Firefox 3.6.1 or 3.6.5) update for Firefox 3.6.6 on June 26. This update addressed issues with new plugin handler causing issues with the immensely popular Facebook game Farmville. See bug 574905 for … Continue reading
Had a chance today to download, install and even crash (sort of) Firefox 3.7a6pre aka Minefield. When the final release comes out some time around year end it will be numbered as Firefox 4. The biggest change in Firefox 3.7/4.0 … Continue reading
In my earlier Manually Updating Add-ons to Work post I had added the warning: Forcing an add-on to work can cause unwanted behaviours including browser crash upon start-up. Familiarize yourself on how to use Firefox Safe-Mode. In the course of … Continue reading
Back in January I wrote about a couple Chrome Conundrums. They were how when I had Chrome window maximized I could not get to my hidden taskbar without pressing the Windows Key. Further if the Chrome was the active application … Continue reading
We will be running a patch install on the Wiki in about 45-minutes. Not sure how long this patch update is going to take but the Wiki may be periodically inaccessible starting at June 25, 2025 at 01:00 AM PDT … Continue reading
Firefox 3.6.4 has just been released by the developers after a longer than usual wait time. The new version of the web browser comes with out-of-process plugins enabled. This feature basically runs plugins in their own process to increase the … Continue reading
With the long awaited releases of both Firefox 3.5.10 and Firefox 3.6.4 earlier this week, it seemed as if it were too much to hope for a Firefox 4.0 (formally 3.7) release today. Indeed it was, Mozilla is not going … Continue reading
