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Monthly Archives: May 2011

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Firefox 5 Beta Now Available

Posted on May 20, 2025 by The Guru
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Firefox 5 has been moved to the Beta channel on May 20, 2025 (3-days after the May 17th code merge). This build as far as features and changes will be very much similar to the final release due out on … Continue reading →

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Merge Date vs Release Date

Posted on May 20, 2025 by The Guru
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It is still a learning process for the new Firefox rapid release schedule. Earlier this month Mozilla Developer’s News blog explained the difference between the merge and release dates. To sum it up, the dates show on the release page … Continue reading →

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Ant Video Add-on Secretly Collects Browsing Data.

Posted on May 20, 2025 by gareon
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I never have used this but a lot of people do it looks like. A high-rated Firefox extension with more than 7 million downloads secretly collects data about every website the open-source browser visits and combines it with uniquely traceable … Continue reading →

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Microsoft has Money burning holes in their pockets?

Posted on May 16, 2025 by The Guru
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So last week was the big announcement of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype. Some people may have forgotten back in 2008, Microsoft bought Danger (the makers of Sidekick) for $500 million. That did not work out as well as … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: May 2011 Week 2

Posted on May 14, 2025 by The Guru
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Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 5 Beta - May 17th Future Releases Firefox 6 Aurora - May 24th Firefox 3.6.18 - June 21st Firefox 5 - June 21st Firefox 6 Beta - July 4th … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Skype

Posted on May 13, 2025 by The Guru
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With the recent news that Microsoft is acquiring Skype, it did not take long for someone to come out with a packaging design for the new Microsoft Skype. The Super Annoying Edition (with Clippy) is one of 12 editions coming … Continue reading →

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Clarification on New Rapid Release Process

Posted on May 9, 2025 by The Guru
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I feel I should clarify a few things about the new release schedule. Many people are saying Mozilla is moving too fast with Firefox releases. It may appear that way because of the numbering change but things are not changing … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: May 2011 Week 1

Posted on May 7, 2026 by The Guru
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Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 5 Beta - May 17th Firefox 6 Aurora - May 24th Firefox 5 - June 21st Firefox 6 Beta - July 4th … Continue reading →

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Switch on the fly among Aurora, Beta, and Release versions

Posted on May 5, 2026 by gareon
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Firefox Aurora now comes with a built-in channel changer to switch between releases without having to download a separate installer… “ (Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) More How to change Firefox channels | The Download Blog - Download.com Go get … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Us!

Posted on May 1, 2026 by The Guru
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On May 1, 2006, a blog was born. The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog that is. We debuted on Blogger but within a few months moved over to WordPress. The big Firefox news back in 2005 was the upcoming Firefox 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog News, Blogs, Firefox, Other, Site News, Year In Review | Comments

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