Archive for the 'Mozilla' Tag

Not one but two major software releases to get excited about today, folks!
Firefox 3.0 and Wine 1.0! Yes, that’s right, you heard me… WINE 1.0. It’s finally been released!
I’m writing this in Firefox 3.0 right now. I haven’t installed my add-ons yet, but this all looks very shiny. Mozilla is trying to set a world [...]

Note to self: Next time, read the release notes before you upgrade!
Known Issues
Memory Usage
There is currently a memory leak in Gran Paradiso Alpha 2 which will cause the browser to consume excessive amounts of memory after heavy browsing. This issue will be fixed in Gran Paradiso Alpha 3.
Oh, now [...]

And it’s in beta? Either the alphas were a long time ago or they just skipped them, because I don’t remember. Some of the new features sound pretty nifty.

Anyone who’s been paying attention knows about the Firefox trademark thing by now. To wit: Firefox is open source, which means anyone can do anything they want with the source code. But, Mozilla wants to protect their trademark, so if you change the source code and make your own special version of Firefox, you may [...]

This fan ad for Firefox is teh funnay.
It also captures one of the main reasons I use Firefox and Linux rather than Internet Exploder and Windows. Shut up and let me browse!

Firefox 2.0 beta 1 was released today. NOW is the time to get your extensions and themes working in Firefox 2.0! I am begging you, please don’t wait until the final release to start working on it. The alpha and beta releases are intended in part for developers to get a head start so that [...]