Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0 Tested

The article from Slashdot or ComputerWorld – “Make older add-ons work with Firefox 3.0″ make me aware and I did a test immediately.

Type about:config into Firefox’s address bar and click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
Right-click anywhere. Choose New>Boolean. Make the name of your new config value extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.
Make another new boolean pair called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set the value to false.
Restart Firefox.

What’s next? My Firefox keep crashing! The worst case happens and the browser won’t start.

Just click on submit report to Mozilla and the details show as below:

Add-ons: {0545b830-f0aa-4d7e-8820-50a4629a56fe}:2.0.9,{D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}:0.9.6.1,{c36177c0-224a-11da-8cd6-0800200c9a66}:2.0.0,{89506680-e3f4-484c-a2c0-ed711d481eda}:0.9.4.8,{a7c6cf7f-112c-4500-a7ea-39801a327e5f}:0.97.1,foxmarks@kei.com:2.0.45,{3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c}:3.0.20070525W,{aff87fa2-a58e-4edd-b852-0a20203c1e17}:0.3.3,LogMeInClient@logmein.com:1.0.0.369,{AE93811A-5C9A-4d34-8462-F7B864FC4696}:3.18,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0
BuildID: 2008051206
CrashTime: 1211332678
Email:
InstallTime: 1211244997
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 169
StartupTime: 1211332677
Theme: classic/1.0
URL:
UserID: d7db997e-172b-4126-b439-e0ad7be00d55
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.0

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May 21, 2008 · Filed Under Open Source

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Firefox 3 RC1 Released

Firefox 3 RC1

Yes, I’m running Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 now! We’re getting close to Firefox 3 final release now.

What’s new in Firefox 3?

More Secure

One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you’re connected to.
Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware.
New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown.
New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate.
Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.

Easier to Use

Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
Integration with Linux: Firefox’s default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.

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May 17, 2008 · Filed Under Open Source

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2007 Metrics

This is the first time we posted about Planet Malaysia statistics. Basically the statistics details are based on Google Analytics and awstats.

Visitor Overviews:

Total of 153, 147 visits

Total of 216, 087 Pageviews

Total of 131, 178 unique visitors

85.92% new visitor

14.03% returning visitor

Average 419.87 visitor per day

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December 31, 2007 · Filed Under Aggregates, Announcement

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Personas for Firefox

I was looking for the similar Firefox add-ons some times ago and finally I found posted in Digg.

What is Personas for Firefox?

Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser.

Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that:

themes today are too hard to find, install and use
graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code
browsers can be more than just desktop software, they can include online components
people just want their computer to be a little more fun and personal

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December 19, 2007 · Filed Under Open Source, Tips

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VMware ESX, iSCSI testing on my desktop

In my early posted about my new toy – Intel Dual-Core 3.00GHz, 8G RAM, 250 GB HDD Precision 490 desktop in office finally utilized with high load.

Basically I have Windows Vista 64 bit Enterprise, Firefox 3 Beta 1, VMware Workstation 6, VMware ESX, Openfiler iSCSI, Fedora 8 and Windows 2003 Server running on top of the box. For the memory allocation, each OS dedicated to 512 MB and each VMware ESX dedicated to 1GB ram memory.

In my VMware Workstation 6 setup, I have Fedora 6, Openfiler, 2 Windows 2003 Server, 2 VMware ESX 3.01 servers and 3 Windows 2003 server virtual machines running on top of my VMware ESX servers.

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November 29, 2007 · Filed Under VMware

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