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Getting Closer: Firefox 3.6 RC Released
January 11, 2010 - 6:29 pm
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, Release
Posted in Firefox | No comments
Yesterday, Mozilla released the Release Candidate for Firefox 3.6. This release of 3.6 fixes more than 70 (Bugzilla reports 98) bugs since Firefox Beta 3.6 (revision 5).
Updated Strata 4.0 for Mac
January 5, 2010 - 7:06 pm
Tags: Firefox, Mac OS X, Mozilla, strata, themes
Posted in Firefox, Skins and Themes, Strata 4.0 for Mac | 3 comments
Just uploaded a small update to Strata 4.0 for Mac that adds support for the Tab Progress Bar and Fission extensions and fixes a small bug. Enjoy.
Mobile Firefox Release Canidate 1
Over the new years weekend, Mozilla released RC1 of the mobile version of their popular browser Firefox. Firefox for Maemo is part of Mozilla’s ongoing attempt to bring the Mozilla Gecko platform to mobile devices that has been in the works for years. This brings more browser choices to the mobile platforms of today and [...]
Strata 4.0 for Mac Released
December 24, 2009 - 5:37 pm
Tags: Firefox, Mac OS X, Macintosh, strata, themes
Posted in Firefox, Skins and Themes, Strata 4.0 for Mac | 2 comments
Today, Mac users can now enjoy the Firefox 4.0 look on Firefox 3.6. With the release of Firefox 3.6 close, this theme will be a nice addition to it’s release. To top it off, this theme support the Strata Home Tab extension to complete the look.
Mail Server Restored
December 22, 2009 - 7:49 am
Tags: blog, email, forum, issues, server
Posted in Personal | No comments
For anyone who has tried to register with the forum and not gotten a confirmation e-mail, it seems the mail server has been stopped for a while. Today I discovered the problem and started the server backup. Everyone who tried to register should get your confirmation e-mail today.
Opera Seems to Like the Firefox 4.0 Look
December 22, 2009 - 7:15 am
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, themes
Posted in Firefox, Skins and Themes | 5 comments
Over at the design-noir Blog, it seems someone noticed that the new Opera 10.5 pre-alpha appears a little familiar. With Firefox 4.0 a ways away, but still in the minds of people such as the author of Strata40 and StrataBuddy, it seems that the new look is already a hit. Now Opera wants to try [...]
Next Edition of JavaScript MAY Break the Scripts of Today.
December 21, 2009 - 6:09 pm
Tags: ECMA-262, Firefox, issues, javascript, Mozilla, Programming, SpiderMonkey, standards
Posted in Firefox, Internet, Programming | No comments
Jeff Walden, one of the Peer members of the Mozilla JavaScript module (SpiderMonkey) has brought to light some changes coming to their JavaScript interpreter in Firefox 3.7. These change will bring SpiderMonkey in line with the next edition of the JavaScript standard, ECMA-262. These count not only break existing code, but also introduce a new [...]
No Hickups from Firefox 3.6 BETA 5
December 19, 2009 - 2:23 am
Tags: Firefox, Release
Posted in Firefox | No comments
I’ve been running the betas of Firefox 3.6 my MacBook Pro and my Windows 7 PC, and both seem to have been doing pretty well with it. Looks really good so far, but it seems Mozilla says there is still work to be done.
Overall, Firefox 3.6 doesn’t really show off any new features at [...]
WIP, Firefox Strata 3.7 / 4.0 for Mac OS X
December 17, 2009 - 10:51 pm
Tags: Firefox, Mac OS X, Macintosh, themes
Posted in Firefox, Skins and Themes, Strata 4.0 for Mac | No comments
After using Strata40 and Strata Buddy on my Windows computers, I really wanted to have a somewhat similar theme for Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro. Well, I looked and did not find one, so instead of waiting, I decided to start a Strata 3.7 / 4.0 theme for the Mac version of Firefox. [...]
Code Snippet, Easier use of boost::variant.
December 16, 2009 - 10:32 am
Tags: boost, c++, Programming, source code
Posted in Programming | 2 comments
I have been using boost::variant a lot lately in many project and have gotten tired having to recheck code I’ve written to determine what result boost::variant::which() would return for which type. As such I have written one solution for this, but decided to come up with a more generic solution. This solution provides a very [...]