jeff2429 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I have that problem with a few bookmarks. Actually my bookmark for this site has the Google icon. I deleted and added them again a few different times but still it comes back. So I quit caring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 yah for whatever reason dune2k doesn't have an icon anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Yeah, my Dune2k doesnt have an icon, I didnt realise it should! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Firefox bookmark iconsBlog explaining how to get rid of the mysterious incorrect icons. Not a solution to prevent it from happening, but to fix an icon.I currently have 2 icons that are incorrect in my bookmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 2.0.0.8 should be released within 24 hours. No idea what's new. Probably a security fix.EDIT:It is out now (help->check for updates)http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.8/releasenotes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff2429 Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Must beat Andrew in posting about an update to FireFox. 2.0.0.9http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.9/releasenotes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I wonder when they will be releasing a new version 3.0.They almost always released a new update around now, but it looks like they are way behind. this old roadmap had 3.0 listed as released in first quarter 2007.Although I guess they are waiting for gecko 1.9 or something to be finished which will make firefox 3.0 a major upgrade.Doesn't seem to be much news on it. I've read some blogs or whatever that have shown some screenshot updates.I want newer firefox! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.10/releasenotes/Couple of security updates.:P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Yeah, got it today.Still a great browser configured the way I like :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Another new firefox out. This caught me by surprise.http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.11/releasenotes/Fixed a problem introduced in the previous version. Although they don't bother to explain what it was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Firefox claims over 125 million active usersThat is good news. No wonder Microsoft is spinning the media lots lately. Just the other day it said IE was more secure than Firefox, because firefox makes regular updates, compared to MS who make updates every so often...Microsoft: Firefox users in danger due to more frequent updatesThat makes no sense to me. The more often the updates, the more up to date the product is to protect it from vulnerabilities.Firefox response: Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 First of, that PR stuff about which browser is best, is totally worthless.If you are using Windows. Who cares that FireFox is your webbrowser. Windows can not do without IE or any other form of UML browser (which Explorer and Internet Explorer basically are). So you are using Windows. MS doesn't make any money from selling IE. It does from selling Windows. So go ahead and use FireFox. You are not financially taunting MS with that.(for those of you who are using Linux and FireFox. . MS couldn't care less from an IE point of view)On the update part. No sensible company should use software that needs updates every month.. ..It's about time that PR stuff gets out of the way and companies start making real software again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Yes it completely depends if you are in a corporate environment or a home environment. Corporations don't want to constantly update machines (they can disable autoupdate in firefox if they wanted, but all stick with IE, easier to stick with one software distributor). For home users having firefox autoupdate seems quite simple. No need to wait a long time for a security patch or whatever. It tells you there is an update and you can get the update very fast without it affecting much.It's about time that PR stuff gets out of the way and companies start making real software again.Sadly that won't happen, everyone will continue to make whatever sells (or gets popular).And whenever there are companies or individuals who do create great software/services, once they get popular enough they will sell out to a big company and the software turns into crap because it is no longer about the software, it is about profit. I hate when that happens. Just when I get used to a certain piece of software someone buys it and then puts their branding and crap all over it making it useless (lets bundle web browsing toolbars with our product, what a great idea!). I want a product to do what it is meant to do, I don't want to have to sort through all the noise to get to what I want (such as advertisements when you go to a search engine).People can argue that Mozilla sold out, getting $60 million from Google each year (why not take their money?). Where does all that money go? It shouldn't cost that much to maintain a couple specific pieces of software (they only spend 20% of revenue). But then Firefox etc is opensource so if they did screw up, someone can always make their own version and distribute it.There are individuals who can create good software not making much money at all (at least compared to corporations). utorrent before it sold out, paint.net which makes money from ads on the website which the author regularly and openly talks about unlike most places. These software projects only had a couple people working on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Sadly that won't happen, everyone will continue to make whatever sells (or gets popular).There are a lot of good companies that make even better software. It is just that they have to shift from a marketing strategy to an product quality strategy.The iPod for one might be a very good player. Or it might not. That has to be marketed. Not the billboard on every street corner that dictates you to buy one in order to be hip. Not even to mention the I am a Mac commercials which really tell nothing about what the h*ll he is.FireFox might be the best browser on earth. About time they act like the best company and not start PR flame wars for the sole fact of telling everyone how good you really are. It's still a good product. The way it is marketed just isn't.If you have a good product, others will give you the credit for it (Look at Mercury Mail, or the Pegasus email client), we don't need Apple, Microsoft or a Linux website to show us The best OS on the planet. With all due respect but they just arn't.If they are, we call them that. No need to give yourself that credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 It was Microsoft who started with the "Firefox is insecure because it updates so often". Mozilla just replied to that argument.Not even to mention the I am a Mac commercials which really tell nothing about what the h*ll he is.I especially like the Apple commercial where all it does is talk about Vista (how bad it is). They never even mention the Apple product.http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/Podium commercial.Basically what they are saying in the commercial is to switch from Vista to XP, not that they should buy a mac.I'd definitely agree with you on the Pegasus mail. Word of mouth (on the internet) is how the good, not well known software gets known and popular. I love every time a thread at slashdot talk about software, there usually ends up being a piece of software I never heard about that does something specific which I might need someday. It's how I got to use lots of software.I also like when someone mentions how slow and crappy adobe reader is and 15 people mention lots of other pdf readers. Interesting how people have not found alternatives yet. I guess people still think that adobe = pdfCompetition is good. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Firefox beta 3 was released yesterday.According to release notesFirefox 3 Beta 3 includes approximately 1300 individual changes from the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.There has been 50 memory leak fixes since beta 2. (350 memory leak fixes in total)review of new beta. (with pics)It says new icons are used, although mine is still using firefox 2.0 icons. Probably because I still got firefox 2.0 installed or something stupid with ubuntu hardy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 One little addon which I use for FF, is the dictionaries, which are really useful. You can get them in just about any language, which is really useful as it can correct my French as I write it.I really don't know what I'd do if I had to go back to IE these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 You mean a dictionary plugin? like aspell/hunspell?I know about localizations (default) build. I havn't paid any attention to different language spell checkers.Got a link to this plugin?I enjoy using spellchecker in instant messenging as well. Same dictionary that is used for openoffice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3These ones here. I study languages at university so its quite useful for me. What I have noticed in IE (or is it just mine), is that if you hover the cursor over a word, it tells you what it means in spanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 For IE could be a language thing for windows. Do you have one of those language bars on the taskbar? Could be an IE plugin as well.I had EN-US installed for firefox, now installing EN-CA for Canadian language. Usually firefox gives me EN-GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I haven't installed anything for IE. Everyone should use those dictionary plugins if they intend to post on any message boards. Would make things so much easier for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Firefox has had 500 million downloads.It will be interesting to see specific download and upgrade information for firefox 3.0 when it is released in a month or two.Especially since users using firefox 2.0 will get an upgrade notification when firefox 3.0 is released.heh, I like how this graph shows most downloads come from IE. Guess the old saying that IE is only good for downloading firefox is true! :PMicrosoft is already working on IE8, looks like competition is actually making them work. I hope they continue to lose market share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Firefox has some nice plug-ins, here are a few:BBCodeXtra, add BBCode and (X)HTML options to right mouse button in textfield. For example, you have an image url copied, just press right mouse button and let it auto put tags around itCustomizeGoogle, improves how google returns searches, no ads, no spam and more nice options. For example, when you search images and click on the image it directly goes there instead of a silly frame - everything is adjustable.FlashBlock, blocks auto starting flash and puts an play button on them, very handy against flashy flash ads, haha.Web Developer, the tool for any serious web builder. Gives you information and the options to disable all kind of parts (like images, javascript, css etc.) The thing I mostly like is the CSS, HTML and Javascript error console.Firebug, another great tool for web builders. This thing let's you look into and instantly change things to the website (HTML, CSS, Script etc). Also you can check the download speed and size of the website, what I like the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Beta 4 progressRC for beta 4 are out (these are RC for the beta, not final version of beta, so don't use them). So hopefully it will be released in less than a week.Firefox 3 Beta 5 schedule* String freeze will be on Friday, March 7th, 11:59pm PST* Code freeze will be on Tuesday, March 18th, 11:59pm PSTSo it looks like beta 5 is last beta. So maybe beta 5 will be released near and of march. So final version of firefox 3.0 could be released by end of April? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I just downloaded Firefox onto my girlfriend's laptop, with a pink theme for her. I generally encourage all my friends to download it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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