Kiyouta Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 At work we have IE6 and it's like going back in time. It always crashes and loading pages takes so damn LONG!Heh, ya know it's my job to make that crappy old thing go away for good! I'm Lead Project Manager Executive of Windows 7 Rollout in all its transparent glory. Of course, it could go horribly wrong and I end up leaving everyone's machines in the morning with no OS at all... Either way though... no more IE6! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Putting win7 on same hardware or getting new computers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyouta Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Most machines foot the bill quite nicely. Only worry is machines with less than 2 GB RAM. We'll be upgrading those, as well as any machines that can't run 64-bit Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Statistics: Firefox 3.5 surpassed IE7 in global usage share last week#1 browser by version number.Microsoft really screwed their monopoly on web browsers.Next target should be for IE to not have >=50% market share.Anyone want to make a bet if it will happen, and approximately when?I'm gonna guess February 2011. IE in total only has 56%. So maybe a little over a year from now it'll drop another 6-10%.Original data that you can mess with.Sort by browser, winxp has 66%, vista 22% and win7 6%. Microsoft would really love to kill winxp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Firefox 3.6 released.Release notes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Thanks for all the great info Andrew, I am updating to 3.6 as I type. Well, its waiting for a restart, anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyouta Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 I would update, but apparently neither Google Gears nor IE Tab work in 3.6 yet...I've never liked the way Firefox looks in Vista; good to see it's getting an interface-lift for the next major release, whenever that will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Am I going crazy or did my firefox recently ask to be updated to 3.7?Nope, am going crazy.Who likes my layout? Its where FF3.7 is meant to be heading with tabs along the top, apparently. I got used to it very quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I much prefer the tabs beneath the location bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyouta Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Heh, I always get chills running down my back when I see screen shots of other people's FED2k sessions...Btw, Re-erjin999 what's the weather thing on your status bar called? Is that a Firefox extension? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I much prefer the tabs beneath the location bar.Me too.Btw, Re-erjin999 what's the weather thing on your status bar called? Is that a Firefox extension?I'm guessing forecastfox which has been around for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Correct, its weatherfox or whatever its called, customised the placement so as to use as much space as possible.I did prefer the tabs below, until I used this for a bit and now have copied the changes to all my computers. Its worth a try.How about a list of everyones addons, and what you think of them in terms of usefulness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 So I'm testing Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 and firefox 3.6. I went to youtube mainpage to see flash stuff, and I havn't installed adblock+ and I see this huge monstrosity:Do people really browse youtube and other websites when advertisements take up 50% of screen space?Has youtube always been like that?I click on video link and don't see ads anywheres, so just main page with huge banners?I havn't upgraded to firefox 3.6 on ubuntu 9.10 yet. Dunno if I will. Probably easier to wait for ubuntu 10.04 final.First impression of ubuntu 10.04 is good. running smooth off of 4gb usb stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 It's bizarre seeing ads on the internet at work. Will have to ask if I can install an ad block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 It's bizarre seeing ads on the internet at work. Will have to ask if I can install an ad block.Depending on where you work, it would be an added bonus as it would eliminate advertising vector as malware/virus point of infection.Think of it as protecting your data/OS (assuming windows) if you have to browse web.If you already use firefox at work should already be using adblock+.But I assume you use IE, so you'd basically have to ask to use Firefox.EDIT:Unless you get a dedicated adblocker program. But firefox and adblock+ work great. If using windows a customized hosts file will prevent ad networks from connecting in any program. Good if you have windows+IE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Firefox, or opera. It actually shouldn't be that much of a problem but I work in recruitment so ads can be important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 It's bizarre seeing ads on the internet at work. Will have to ask if I can install an ad block.I use one central proxy server that amongst other things filters out most advertisements. No need to install (additional) software on the clients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 It's not the install per se it's the actual removal of ads as they may be useful for work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 3.6.2 released. update!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athanasios Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Still there? ;DAm I going crazy or did my firefox recently ask to be updated to 3.7?Nope, amNOTgoing crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Minefield is the codename of 3.7? either way, I was wrong, it wasnt asking for update to 3.7.Good to see you are on it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athanasios Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 The precursory builds of upcoming Firefox releases are usually codenamed "Minefield"' date=' as this is the name of the trunk builds.[/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Minefield is the codename for all dev (nightly/trunk?) stuff.Eventually when they decide to branch off for a 3.7 release or whatever, they'll have a japanese(?) codename for the alpha/beta etc of that release. Then becomes named Firefox when final released.There's always a minefield version out there as it's just the absolute newest version.Think of it like for some open source projects tell you to go to svn or git and compile your own from latest stuff. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Microsoft hides mystery Firefox extension in toolbar updateThanks Microsoft for once again injecting your software into other software.You can't create a useful web browser so you inject your stuff into others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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