| 23rd March 2007 |
Firefox 2.0.0.3 is out now!
It contains security and bug fixes so get it while it's hot. |
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| 20th February 2007 |
I've finaly been able to update the website.
Now my email has messed up so if your waiting on an email it will be fixed ether today or tommorow. |
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| 8th February 2007 |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Alpha 2 is out so if your interested go for it. |
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| 9th December 2006 |
Europe has 20% of it's internet surfers using firefox!
On another note, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Alpha 1 has been released. I would only recommend you install this on another computer to test it out as it could be quite buggy. |
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| 30th October 2006 |
Mozilla have release some information on the download rate of Firefox:
- Firefox 1.0: 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours.
- Firefox 1.5: 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours
- Firefox 2: 2 million (actually slightly more) people using Firefox 2 in the first 24 hour
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| 25th October 2006 |
There has not been much news on the Firefox side of things....
UNTILL NOW!!! Get Firefox 2.0 Final now!
To get the spell cheek working you have to download a dictionary from the add-ons part of their website. |
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| 14th September 2006 |
| Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 is out now. This is the last release until Firefox 2.0. |
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| 3rd August 2006 |
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 is out now.
On another note, firefox has reached 200 Million downloads! |
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| 26th July 2006 |
Firefox 1.5.0.5 is out now (as soon as they update there main page).
IE7 Final is going to be released soon, in the 4th quarter of 2006.
Microsoft is currently bidding for AOL which help fund Firefox, I think the company is now stable enough to keep itself alive without them though. |
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| 11th July 2006 |
| Firefox has 25% of the market according to W3Counter and Internet Explorer has 67%. |
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| 10th July 2006 |
Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is out now it is not yet feature complete yet but if you want to cheek it out you can do so.
I'm getting spam from 2 email addresses now, this means that I may have deleted your messages by accident. If I have not sent a reply feel free to send another. |
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| 2nd June 2006 |
Firefox 1.5.0.4 has been released so you can update or download it if you have not already.
My GCSEs are going fine and should be over soon. |
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| 30th April 2006 |
Firefox 1.5.0.3 has been released, it took them less than a week once the bug was found to release a patch! That should teach Microsoft a thing or two about customer service.
The news page seems to be a bit long, so after my GCSEs I'll have a go at archiving it. |
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| 16th April 2006 |
Firefox 1.5.0.2 has been released for a while now so update your firefox.
To celebrate it's release watch this video. |
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| 4th April 2006 |
| Firefox has reached 10% at marketshare.hitslink.com witch is a less bias and therefore better view on how well firefox is doing. 10% is a huge amount so well done to Mozilla. |
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| 20th March 2006 |
Firefox 2.0 Alfa 1 is out now. It is Alfa though so don't use if if you don't want to take the risk.
(Alfa is usually fairly buggy) |
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| 10th March 2006 |
The download counter on spreadfirefox.com has reached 150 million!
Firefox reached the 100 million mark just 5 months ago (in october). Some web sites have also reported Firefox reach a 30% usage on there servers! |
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| 26th February 2006 |
| Firefox news has been coming in slow lately, so for all the people wanting to know a lil more about Songbird here's an interview. |
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| 19th February 2006 |
I have been told by a friend that I am a little too anti Microsoft. If that annoys you then I apologise.
The reason I dislike them is because they threatened to sue www.tweakguides.com for using there name in a free guide to tweak windows. Personally I think they misused there power (money) as the guide was free and was doing nothing to hamper there reputation.
From now on I will try to keep those opinions toned down, he he. |
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| 9th February 2006 |
Here is a little information about a program called Songbird.
A new music playing program, based on firefox's browser engine has been released. It is a "Proof-of-Concept" build however and should be handled as such. The program has the ergonomics of iTunes but doesn't have any links to a specific company (e.g. iTunes music store) and above all things, it can take plugins!
And here's a list of features.
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| 1st February 2006 |
I'm sorry I couldn't wish you all a happy christmas but sadly I couldn't because I was on a cruse.
Let us use this moment to feel sorry for me..... he he
Now on to happier news! Firefox 1.5 has had it's first automatic update today as many of you may now have realised. For those not using firefox, it was quick and painless. Unlike the I.E. updates that take more than a month for Microsoft to complete.
Two new browsers have been released to the public.
The first is an internet suite by the creators of Firefox. They call it Seamonkey 1.0.
The second is a long awaited update for Microsoft's only browser. I don't recommend you install it if you rely on I.E., but if you want to compare then say hello to Internet Explorer 7.0. |
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| 29th November 2005 |
Firefox 1.5 Final is coming out today! I will give you a link when the download is available.
It's official, you can get it here from this newly designed page.
Hears a list of changes from BetaNews:
- Automated update to streamline product upgrades
- Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance
- Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs
- Improvements to popup blocking
- Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut
- Answers.com is added to the search engine list
- Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience
- Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the i
- Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox
- Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer
- New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6
- Many security enhancements
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| 18th November 2005 |
| Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3 is out now, I was going to post about RC2 but I heard that in some cases it was unstable. This build looks good so far. |
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| 2nd November 2005 |
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is out now!
It is also my Birthday! |
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| 8th October 2005 |
| Firefox Beta 2 is out now! |
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| 22nd September 2005 |
| Firefox 1.0.7 is out. It includes the patch that I told you about in the 11th of September so you don't need to install it. When Firefox 1.5 comes out (at the end of the year) it will have a lot better patching system so you won't have to download Firefox every time a new version comes out. |
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| 13th September 2005 |
| Big news! (to me anyway) Firefox Tutorials comes up first in the MSN UK search engine when you put in, that's right, "Firefox Tutorials"! |
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| 11th September 2005 |
| Mozilla have released a small patch to fix a security issue in Firefox, you should apply it even if your using Firefox Beta 1, (the latest public release) future versions will have the patch already applied. |
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| 31st August 2005 |
| Microsoft fears that they will face legal action from all of the "vulnerabilities" in Internet Explorer, it also appears that they are stopping Firefox users from viewing parts of certain pages at microsoft.com. This is further proof that Firefox is and hopefully always will be safer then Internet Explorer.
I know I said I wasn't going to change the "Why Choose Firefox" page but I'm going to try out a few methods of splitting it up because it's way too big. |
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| 27th August 2005 |
| I've made a couple more changes to the "Why Choose Firefox" page. (again)
I have also answered a question about profiles in "Troubleshooting" |
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| 24th August 2005 |
| I've made a couple more changes to the "Why Choose Firefox" page. I don't think I'll need to update it for a while now. |
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| 21st August 2005 |
| A guy called Sebastian has helped me add a hell of a lot of content to the "Why Choose Firefox?" page and helped make some of my descriptions more accurate. |
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| 20th August 2005 |
| I've changed the design of the site and now it looks a lot better.
I have added links in "Why Choose Firefox?" to other sites arguing that, Firefox is a better browser than Internet Explorer
I've split the "F.A.Q." page in two. Now there is a "Troubleshooting" page as well. To fit it all in I had to change the font, but quite frankly I think it looks
better.
On looking at the menu again I thought it was a bit hard to spot were one link ended and another began so I added transparent white lines in between them.
I've just realised that all my email was being deleted instead of moved. So if you sent me something please send it again. (It was something to do with the junk email blocker) |
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| 19th August 2005 |
| It is the first day on the web, but in the future the news page will hold information about the site, and Firefox updates.
Ok, so far so good. I'm going to change to the menu, as it looks bad.
I have changed "Speed up Firefox" to "Tools and Guides" that way it will be able to grow into a much larger part of the site.
I have done some editing to the text mainly to do with spelling and grammar.
My thanks go to the people on this thread that helped me out.
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