I recently upgraded my Windows XP x64 installation to Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 (for those not in the know, SP2 for Windows 2003 also applies to XP x64 since they are the same code base) only to run into an issue where clicking on any urls/hyperlinks from desktop applications (Outlook, Word, etc) generated...
Via Ars Technica ( full post here ): Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of Firefox. It sounds pretty scary, doesn't it? If you're still here, let me tell you that it's not as bad as it seems. Sam Ramjii, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, has extended an invitation to the Firefox...
Firefox 1.5 (Deer Park) beta 1 has been released. Check out the release notes here . The most notable new feature (IMO, and one that should have been in from the start) is the first bullet: Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox...
Prefacing this with “not trying to get into my browser is better than yours” conversation. That being said, there have been 44 known security issues in Firefox since the 1.0 release back in November. I don’t have the IE (or any other software) numbers in front of me, but my initial...
This is the second time I’ve noticed this since upgrading from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6; looking in task manager, Firefox is sitting at a whopping 240 megs (with a maximum of 316 being reported)…5 tabs open, and they are lightweight pages in terms of size. This is the second time in about a week…I...