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Monthly Archives: April 2011

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Firefox Release Recap: April 2011 Week 2

Posted on April 16, 2026 by The Guru
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Just Released Firefox 5 Aurora - April 14th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.19 – April 26th Firefox 3.6.17 – April 26th Firefox 4 Macaw (4.0.1) - April 26th Firefox 5 Beta - May 17th Firefox 6 … Continue reading →

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Firefox 5.0 Aurora (Alpha 2) Released

Posted on April 14, 2026 by The Guru
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Mozilla has released the first Aurora build of Firefox 5, Alpha 2 on April 12th. Firefox 5 is the first release being done under Mozilla’s new aggressive development plan. Here is how the plan works, there are 4 stages or … Continue reading →

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A Quick Glance at Firefox in 2011

Posted on April 14, 2026 by The Guru
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So back in February I posted about Mozilla’s new release schedule for Firefox in 2011. At that time the actual schedule hadn’t been fully drawn up yet as they were waiting on the release of Firefox 4. Now, I did … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 Code Names

Posted on April 14, 2026 by The Guru
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Mozilla has a code name for each of the major Firefox builds usually named after national parks. Firefox 3.6 was Namoroka (National Park in Madagascar) while Firefox 4.0 is Tumucumaque (National Park in Brazil). Starting with Firefox 4, each release … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 RSS Feeds

Posted on April 14, 2026 by The Guru
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I don’t think I mentioned this change before. In Firefox 4, the orange RSS feed icon that used to appear in the address bar for sites that had feed has been removed. In its place, is a new ‘Subscribe’ toolbar … Continue reading →

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Forcing Addons in Nightly 6.0a1

Posted on April 14, 2026 by The Guru
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Okay, Mozilla is doing some funky things right now with the new update process. For those of you still on the Nightly (your Firefox button will now show Nightly instead of Minefield) builds, you likely noticed you just got bumped … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4.0.1 (Macaw) Coming

Posted on April 12, 2026 by The Guru
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The first update for Firefox 4.0 is scheduled for release later this month. Firefox 4.0.1 code named Macaw (yes, Mozilla is now giving the updates code names as well) is scheduled for April 26th. Further updates for Firefox 3.5 and … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: April 2011 Week 1

Posted on April 11, 2026 by The Guru
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Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.19 – April 26th Firefox 3.6.17 – April 26th Firefox Macaw (4.0.1) - April 26th … Continue reading →

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How To Work With Multiple Spell Checking Dictionaries

Posted on April 3, 2026 by gareon
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Firefox by default ships with a spell checking dictionary that matches the language version of the browser. If you download the Firefox US release you end up with the US-English dictionary for instance. This usually works out of the box … Continue reading →

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Wiki Updated

Posted on April 2, 2026 by The Guru
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When I brought the Wiki over at the beginning of the year, I didn’t do much with it other than get it setup on the WordPress platform. It had been moved from MediaWiki, which is the same platform that Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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