On November 20th, Firefox will end support for users operating Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). After this date, users will stop receiving Firefox updates, including new features and security fixes. If you are a Mac OS X 10.5 user and would like to continue to use the latest Firefox, you must upgrade to a computer running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Mozilla bases changes in supported operating systems on population size and trends, vendor support, testing resources, and technical feasibility. Ending support for Leopard will free up resources for new Mac features like Native Full Screen support and new Mac accessibility tools.
Over the next month, Firefox users running Mac OS X 10.5 will see prompts letting them know that they’ll no longer receive updates. Barring any major stability or security issues found over the next few weeks, Firefox 16.0 will be our last release to support 10.5.
After a five year run, it’s time for a big cat nap.
We bid you adieu, spotted cat
Tag Archives: Mozilla
the evolution of Firefox’s DMG icon
Over the last five years of Mac OS X usage I’ve been collecting some screenshots over my Ipernity‘s space.
The idea behind this was to see changes over times in the look & feel of apps I use the most and the fashions over the software of this platform.
How the Mozilla’s Firefox DMG icon has changed is a nice example of this.
Early 2009:
Mid 2009 – Early 2011
Late 2011
Don’t you think ?
The First 48 Hours of Mozilla Firefox 4
via blog.mozilla.com
nice infographics I’ve missed from last march … can’t wait to see how the brand new Firefox 5 (released yesterday) behaves!
The First 48 Hours of Mozilla Firefox 4
via blog.mozilla.com
nice infographics I’ve missed from last march … can’t wait to see how the brand new Firefox 5 (released yesterday) behaves!
ActiveInbox: Better GMail Plugin
Anyone has tried it? I’m not really into the webmail interface gig … but that seems interesting.
Thunderbird and the p7m files attachments
In the last couple of months more and more italians are facing the spreading of digitally signed documents.
This because italian’s Public Administration is updating herself and her bureaucracy, trying to filling the technological gap spawned in those last 20 years between us and the rest of the “1st world”. Official documents are being made available via websites or certified email account and so we citizen are forced to update our technical equipments.
Recently I had the chance to witness a little ‘failure’ of my favorite e-mail client, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, that considers the attachment content-type, specifically speaking p7m files as application/pkcs7-mime or application/x-pkcs7-mime.
Theoretically Thunderbird should manage those attachment with ease, displaying it in the e-mail body if positively recognized. Unfortunately this isn’t true all the time, and you have that the attachment is not ‘recognized’ and showed to you and what you see is one big binary email, even if you’ve successfully imported the signer’s certificate.
Smart P7M Support extension is – at the moment – the optimal solution to this p7m file attachment issue. It manages to always detect correctly those files, making it ‘available’ in the body of the message (like in the example posted here) and also showing the ‘clip’ icon in the message list.
Then you’ll have just the problem of having installed a software that analyzes the digital sign and, eventually, permits you to extract the original file content.
But that’s a story for the next post!
Firefox 4 and Windows 7 status bar
Some days ago we were talking about my first approach to Internet Explorer 9 and, at a certain point, about the strange behavior in the taskbar of Windows 7.
So, given the release of Firefox I’ve downloaded and installed it to make some verification’ screenshots. The following is my upgrade from Firefox 4RC1 to stable, clicking on it you can examine what’s the app icon behavior in the taskbar:
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LookOut (add-on for Thunderbird)
LookOut is a plugin which allows Thunderbird to interface with Microsoft’s mail tools by decoding metadata and attachments encapsulated/embedded in a TNEF encoded attachment (aka winmail.dat).
The TNEF decoding engine was inspired (with permission) by the tnef.sf.net project. LookOut has a full MAPI decoder and the ability to transcode some of those properties to iCalendar (ics) and vCard (vcf) formats. As an option all MAPI properties within a email can be viewed so other types of information can be deciphered.
If you’re a Mozilla Thunderbird (or Seamonkey) user and you’ve got enough of your email’s inbox full of those dull attachments install this LookOut plugin without hesitation, you’ll finally see those files as the sender’ meant you to see.
LookOut (add-on for Thunderbird)
LookOut is a plugin which allows Thunderbird to interface with Microsoft’s mail tools by decoding metadata and attachments encapsulated/embedded in a TNEF encoded attachment (aka winmail.dat).
The TNEF decoding engine was inspired (with permission) by the tnef.sf.net project. LookOut has a full MAPI decoder and the ability to transcode some of those properties to iCalendar (ics) and vCard (vcf) formats. As an option all MAPI properties within a email can be viewed so other types of information can be deciphered.
Pencil Project
via pencil.evolus.vn
Sketching and Prototyping with Firefox
The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
