Friday, October 7, 2011

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EPD 62: Fan Mail Friday’s (10/07/2011)

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 09:09 PM PDT

Dear Remy,

You mention that you already have a bunch of widgets or sidebar gadgets. What would thous widgets and or side bar gadgets you were talking about ? (In your AVG Internet Security 2011 and 2012 reviews)

Sent In By "Only You Can Chat Me Up"

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What would thous widgets and or side bar gadgets you were talking about ?

Reply: First off I'm always amazed when one of you guys writes in and actually quotes me and or one of my reviews. I'm usually like "Cool they actually read it." I'm always truly flattered. So "Thanks for that."

Now onto your question….

I use the following widgets / side bar gadgets and their versions. Also important to note is my main computer is using Windows Vista.

1. WeatherEye (2.0.2)

2. Currency (1.0.0.0)

3. All CPU Meter (3.7)

4. Sushi Driveinfo (1.1)

5. Network Meter (7.0.4)

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I hope that answers your question. By the way to our (CSW) readership "What do you guys use ? or do you even use the sidebar at all ?

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Till Next Friday,

Remy "Se7en"

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Mozilla Is Trying To Get Old School Firefox 3.6 Fans To Upgrade And Move On To FireFox 7

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Editorial Disclaimer: Even thou the bulk of this post comes from Cnet News as sourced below and via the 2 links in this "Editorial Disclaimer". I have made some minor changes such as formatting, word usage and removal of some of the extra un-needed content from the full un-edited Cnet News post. This is in no way my post nor is the content exclusive to (CSW) in anyway.

In a move expected byFirefox users Firefox 3.6 will be encouraged to update to the current version of Firefox 7.0.1.

Mozilla has moved to the rapid-release process within the past year or so. To try to make Firefox more competitive by getting improvements into users' hands sooner. This is very similar to what Google's Chrome first pioneered "the six-week rapid-release cycle" that Firefox now uses as well.

Release manager "Christian Legnitto" announced the upgrade in a mailing list message:

This is mainly to move regular Firefox users who don't know there is an update up to a newer/better version if they are so inclined.

Based on previous advertised update offers we expect to see a significant percentage of users installing the new version. We are, of course, watching the data closely to see what happens and to make sure there are no unexpected issues.

Mozilla has run into trouble with the rapid-release process. One problem has been that add-ons aren't always compatible, and another is that some slower-moving organizations want more time to test the new versions.

For the former problem, Mozilla is moving to a less conservative approach of marking add-ons as compatible by default. For the latter, it's proposed an Enterprise Support Release of Firefox that has a lifespan of 42 weeks, with new ESR versions arriving every 30 weeks.

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