Firefox Tweaking

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 9:47 am on Wednesday, May 4, 2005

TweakGuides.com has a very complete guide to Firefox. It explains what a lot of the about:config setting mean. And Forevergeek.com posted about fixing Firefox slow downs.

50 Million Firefox Downloads!

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 1:31 pm on Friday, April 29, 2005

Update: Googlefox

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 9:12 am on Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Blake and Mitchell from Mozilla have posted some details/clarifications to Ben Goodgers announcement.

Googlefox?

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 8:05 pm on Monday, January 24, 2005

Lead developer for Firefox, Ben Goodger announced on his blog that he has become a Google employee. Although Google is signing his checks, he will still be working at Mozilla on Firefox. But what does it all mean Basil? Is this another clue that Google will be releasing it’s own browser?

Tweaking Firefox

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 4:13 pm on Wednesday, December 8, 2004

Want to know more about customizing Firefox? Check out WindowsSecrets.com article on the Secrets of Firefox 1.0. I highly recommend applying the following tweaks:

  • Fix a memory leak in Firefox 1.0
  • Speeding up the maximizing of Firefox
  • Speeding up Firefox on Windows XP

TweakFactor.com gives optimal settings for fast vs. slow computers and fast vs. slow internet connections in their Firefox Tweak Guide.

Firefox 1.0

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 3:42 pm on Thursday, November 4, 2004

Firefox 1.0 will be released Nov. 9th!

Giant red panda humping south america

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 9:51 am on Friday, October 29, 2004

Bugzilla Bug 262173: Firefox Icon Problem – new firefox icon appears to be giant red panda that is humping south america.

Gotta love the open source community…

Found via squarefree.com

It’s Here!

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 8:08 am on Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Firefox 0.9 is now available for download.

New features in Firefox 0.9:
* Extension Manager
* Theme Manager
* Data Migration/Import
* New Visual Theme
* Better Bookmarks
* Better Search
* Smaller Download
* Online Help

It’s coming…

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 10:38 am on Friday, June 4, 2004

Firefox 0.9 is set to be released on 6/12 or 6/14.

Bookmarks

Filed under: Open Source Software — ej2 at 10:37 am on Friday, March 12, 2004

I have a horrible time keeping my bookmarks insynch between home and work. Well, now there is hope for those of us who run Firefox as our primary browser. Bookmark FTP is a beautiful little tool that auto-magically uploads/downloads your bookmarks file to an ftp server when starting/shuting down Firefox. Here is the link to install it:
bookmark FTP

There is only one problem for me… FTP is blocked at work!

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