General software updates

[kinmel]

In theory just after midnight Firefox 3.5 will be released, but we shall see. 

My Firefox 3.5 RC had an update last night

[Gary]

My Firefox 3.5 RC had an update last night

There was a release candidate 3 put out a week ago, whats yours now is it RC or the full release?

Edit Firefox 3.5 release available from Filehippo, I'll wait till the official release later, I trust that more for some reason.

[kinmel]

There was a release candidate 3 put out a week ago, whats yours now is it RC or the full release?

Edit Firefox 3.5 release available from Filehippo, I'll wait till the official release later, I trust that more for some reason.

FF now says it is FF3.5, I think it used to say 3.5RC1

[Sebby]

My RC says 3.5, Alan. Thanks for the info, Gary, I'm excited for the final FF3.5. It's a big improvement.

[Gary]

Firefox 3.5 is now released and you can get it via your updater or from the download site 

[Baz]

as always im a bit unsure about this so far......early days though until I get used to it.
open a new tab with the plus sign next to the tab already there and it places a cross in each new tab opened to close that tab.when you close tabs with this cross and get back to only one tab open, how do you close that one as the cross disappears.


it does seem quicker though.I have some add ons that are not updated for it yet.

[kinmel]

open a new tab with the plus sign next to the tab already there and it places a cross in each new tab opened to close that tab.when you close tabs with this cross and get back to only one tab open, how do you close that one as the cross disappears.
it does seem quicker though.I have some add ons that are not updated for it yet.

Tools > Options > TABS >Change " Hide the Tab Bar" to when only one tab is open

To keep using all your addons, install MR Tech Toolkit and disable compatibility checking

[Baz]

I dont see a 'hide the tab bar' option Alan

[Gary]

I dont see a 'hide the tab bar' option Alan

untick the Alway show the tab bar Baz in that option.

[kinmel]

sorry about that, the option i quoted is provided by an addon 

[Baz]

tried that Gary but then it hides the tab bar and how then do you close the tab if you only have one open.

I used to use Tab mix plus in the last FF version. Might have to wait until thats updated

[Sebby]

Firefox 3.5 is now released and you can get it via your updater or from the download site 

Installed.

[Baz]

anyone come across the geolocation browsing or whatever its called.

is it spying on us

[Den]

Just installed the Firefox update and it seems very fast, could this finally persuade me to move across from IE8 

[Sebby]

Go on Den, make the move!

[Niall]

The memory usage in Firefox still seems to be an issue. Although most extensions and plugins got updates a couple of days ago, so hopefully that'll change. A lot of people were pointing to the Adobe flash plugin as the problem at one point, and that's just been updated so hopefully it's a problem of the past.

That being said, with only this page open, Firefox is using 111mb+ of ram. Bit much for a webpage me thinks!

[Gary]

anyone come across the geolocation browsing or whatever its called.

is it spying on us

I disabled it as I do not need it on my home machine, type about:config accept the warning, then go to geo.enabled and double click it, it will then say false in the far right hand collumn, restart firefox. If you travel I imagine it could be useful, but I want my position and that of the wifi hotspots around me to be kept private at home. The iphone and my Nokia use location aware programs, but as I see it no need for a home machine, call me paranoid but even with permission as sites ask first, do not want webpages knowing roughly (its very rough) where I may live, I also disable network prefetching because I do not want google for instance being prefetched by Firefox, I only want cookies from the sites I visit being downloaded not sites I may want to visit being downloaded in the background, after all not every search result is a good one, I have had relevant next to well, unsavoury and I do not want unsavoury being loaded in the background. To disable that, type about:config in the address bar accept the there be dragons here warning (I refuse to call it the awesome bar) scroll to network.prefetch.next and double click so its disabled, restart

[Gary]

The memory usage in Firefox still seems to be an issue. Although most extensions and plugins got updates a couple of days ago, so hopefully that'll change. A lot of people were pointing to the Adobe flash plugin as the problem at one point, and that's just been updated so hopefully it's a problem of the past.

That being said, with only this page open, Firefox is using 111mb+ of ram. Bit much for a webpage me thinks!

My google opt of behavioural advertising ad on didn't sadly, but I dont see ads anyway, thanks to AdMuncher and Kasperskys banner blocker, but its the profiling I resent, hopefully that will be updated soon

[Steve]

May be of interest to mac users. The recent firmware update 7.4.2 for airport extreme and Time Capsule has finally allowed me to see my shared Time capsule hard drive via Back to My Mac a Mobile Me service. This means you can access this share when you are away from home.

I have a TC bridged to a DG834N v1.02.15. Previous firmware versions for TC did not allow this facility for me when the TC was setup in bridged mode.

[Sebby]

Thanks, Steve.

[Steve]

Safari 4.0.2

[Sebby]

Thanks, Steve.

[Baz]

Firefox 3.5 is now released and you can get it via your updater or from the download site 

still waiting for the Add on people to upgrade the ones I have 

[Sebby]

I noticed that Google finally updated their advertising cookie opt-out plugin today.

[Rik]

They did indeed. I promptly forgot about it.