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I was recently asked to evaluate the available support options for a software package and recommend which option was best. The existing support contract was nearing the end of its term, and the company was unsure of what level of support was necessary. The software's support options came in two …
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The Mozilla Project announced their latest release of Firefox 3.0 today. Firefox 3.0.11 includes several stability fixes and an upgrade to the internal database engine (SQLite). Most important, Firefox 3.0.11 includes a host of security updates.
Finally, another beta release of Firefox 3.5 was …
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The Mozilla Project issued an emergency release of Firefox 3.0 today. Firefox 3.0.10 fixes a critical security issue introduced by one of the security fixes provided in Firefox 3.0.9. This new issue caused memory corruption that resulted in frequent crashes, especially for users of the …
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The Mozilla project released Firefox 3.0.9 today to address several security and stability issues. In addition to the security fixes listed below, this update also fixes a few bugs that were impacting user experience. For example, a local database corruption was resulting in an apparent loss of stored …
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For whatever reason, my iMac had some problems this week and I was forced to shutdown uncleanly. I didn't notice much in the way of repercussions until I tried to use Parallels with shared networking turned on. When I opened up Leopard's Network Preferences Pane, I noticed that the Parallels-NAT …
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The Mozilla Project released Firefox 3.0.8 today to fix two critical security issues.
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The Mozilla Project released Firefox 3.0.7 yesterday. This minor release addresses several stability issues in addition to a few critical security problems. It is recommended that all users upgrade in order to get access to these security fixes. Additionally users of the Flashblock add-on will enjoy a better …
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Google may have added this feature back in October, but I'm just now noticing it. Although I don't use footnotes very often, I know some folks that really like them. Alex at GoogleOS pointed out some issues with the new footnote system when they first hit the scene.
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Firefox 3.0.6 has been released by Mozilla. As with all minor releases in Firefox 3, this release mainly focuses on security and stability fixes. Specific stability issues addressed include fixing display issues with long running Firefox processes and improving the interaction of scripted commands and plugins. For the …
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Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.5 and your automatic update should have kicked in by now. This release is mainly focused on security and stability updates for the Firefox 3 release. You can find a list of security fixes at the end of this post.
In addition to the security …
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