27 Aug 08 Ubiquity For Firefox
Just Watch The Video. This is something cool in the making.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Tags: firefox, mozilla labs, ubiquity
04 Jul 08 Firefox Certificate
“From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!” came the statement from Mozilla, making this the record download of software in 24 hours, and earning them a place in Guinness World Records.
Mozilla’s servers crashed on the day due to the very high demand, but they had them back up in a couple of hours, and I went ahead and got copies of Firefox 3.0 for both my Windows and Linux machines here, and they’ve run without a hitch since.
In the time since Download Day, over 28 million people have downloaded the browser. The United States leads the world in Firefox 3 downloads with over 7.7 million. Germany ranks a distant second with over 2.4 million users downloading the Mozilla’s browser to date.
Firefox now commands 19% total market share according to ZDnet blogs.
Tags: downloads, firefox, germany, guinness world records, linux, linux machines, market share, mozilla, servers, utc
06 May 08 Strange Firefox Error
Recently Firefox started acting up when attempting to display some images.
It would work fine with thumbnails for example but clicking on them to get the full picture gave me a message saying that the image couldn’t be displayed as it contain errors. After checking numerous sites and getting the same image, I tried a windows machine with IE, and they appeared fine.
First thing to do is run Firefox in safe mode. If you’re using a windows machine, simply pull up a command line box (Start, Run), and type firefox -safe-mode in it.
That will run Firefox with everything disabled. I did that, and images worked fine. Next step is to go back to regular firefox, and disable all your add-ons. Then re-activate them, one by one, until you recreate the error.
In my case, it was my Skype Extension add-on that was causing the issue. That add-on highlights phone numbers within a web page allowing you to dial them by clicking on them, if you use Skype and SkypeOut (which I do).
I guess, I’ll have to wait for a further update, or work around, to get that facility back. I don’t use it a lot (I don’t use the phone a lot really, as I much prefer email), but it can be useful at times.
Tags: because it contains errors, cannot be displayed, firefox, images, message saying that, phone numbers, safe mode, skype, skypeout, thumbnails, web page, windows machine
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