firefox
Firefox 3.1 beta 2 Released
The interface is looking very much like the recent Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1, specially the tabs component. But aside from this there is no radically obvious changes.
Launching seems faster but that could be my new 7200rpm drive.
I’ve only been using FF31b2 for 5 minutes but one thing I did notice in my quick look around was this...
Previously, a plugin was required to do this very handy option.
Firefox 3b5 Hardy Heron
07/06/08 17:21 Filed in: Linux
In my impatience to see if I could get the very
latest Firefox 3 rc2 running on my new Hardy Heron
install, I ran “sudo firefox” from the terminal and
then an update with the built-in update feature.
Big mistake.
I broke Firefox in a bad way. None of the icons on the toolbar were available and there was general havock with the whole program.
It seems by running Firefox with sudo and then trying an update I had changed the ownership of some of the files to root, rather than my login.
The following command fixed the problem:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.mozilla
Firefox has now settled down but I don’t really trust it.
Rule number 1: let the synaptic package manager dish out the updates as they arrive, don’t jump the gun.
Big mistake.
I broke Firefox in a bad way. None of the icons on the toolbar were available and there was general havock with the whole program.
It seems by running Firefox with sudo and then trying an update I had changed the ownership of some of the files to root, rather than my login.
The following command fixed the problem:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.mozilla
Firefox has now settled down but I don’t really trust it.
Rule number 1: let the synaptic package manager dish out the updates as they arrive, don’t jump the gun.
Firefox 3 in Beta 3
The worlds best browser is getting even better.
Firefox 3 is now in Beta 3 release, and ready for you to download and try. You can get it here.
One of the many new features is the redesigned location bar. You can read about that here.
At the suggestion of the Mac Guru at work (aka Paul) I renamed my current Firefox application to Firefox2 so the install of the beta wouldn't overwrite it. I can now run the two versions side-by-side with nary a problem. Windows users shouldn't need this step. I haven't tested it (because I no longer use Win) but from memory the beta installs as a separate program, but you might want to pay attention during the install.
Be prepared for the bug or two, but as yet I haven't found any with the Mac binary. Most of the themes/plugins I was using no longer work, but I expected this. FF3b3 is doing it's update check each time I launch it and it will grab them as they become available. I'm not really concerned with themes as the out-of-the-box theme is so close to the minimalistic one I use in FF2. All is good.
Switch to Firefox, because friends don't let friends use IE.
(Now.. me wonders when the new version of Thunderbird will be released.. last news was late this year 2008.)
You gotta love FireFox
This always makes me laugh.
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Battle of the Browsers
I was having a look at the stats for my photography site today. StatCounter tracks what type of browser was used to view a page, one of many stats you can get from this service.
As you can see the Windoze browsers are only slightly in front of the Non-Windoze browsers. Could this be indicative of a M$ loss of market share to OS X and the Open Source community? Probably not, but I like to think so.