Thunderbird update

Posted on June 28, 2011 by stevec

Thunderbird logoMozilla’s popular mail client (that replaces email programs the equivalent of Outlook) just rolled out a newly enhanced version. Why this is noteworthy is due to the fact that it seems to have skipped a version — the previous version available was 3.1x — this new version is 5.0 . . . so it appears there a been a giant leap taken to advance Thunderbird’s technology.

If you are a Thunderbird user, or need a more stable/safe mail client, please consider looking to update/install the latest version here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ — you’ll be glad you did!

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Firefox 4 – yay! Default settings – boo!

Posted on March 28, 2011 by stevec

The latest version of Firefox (v.4) had some quirks in its default setup, most notably for me being the loss of saved tabs — previously, the browser would (upon Quit or shut-down) allow me to choose to Save Tabs for restart/reopen, or choose to allow them to go by the wayside and start fresh… with the new installation, that option suddenly went bye-bye…

Here’s what I did, thanks to some savvy users/developers and their forum notes online…

Type: about:config into the URL (web page “location”) bar in Firefox, and you’ll get a slew of commands. You’ll need to locate 4 of them:
browser.tabs.warnOnClose
browser.warnOnQuit
browser.warnOnRestart
browser.showQuitWarning

After locating them all, see which ones were not marked True — by double-clicking individual lines which are marked False, they will become True statements and activated as such. Looks like the default upon install was set (for some people?) to False.

Hope this helps someone else before they get frustrated and reinstall v.3!

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Examples of Adobe being ridiculous

Posted on March 10, 2011 by stevec

Okay, I use a Mac for everything I do.

That said, I have some outdated software and hardware because I don’t have spare $s for such things to be updated all the time, especially at Adobe’s pricing rates. Continue reading →

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