We’ve Turned 3!

Back on May 1st, The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog turned 3. Taking a looking back around May 1st for the past 3-years, here were some of the big news items:

2006

• Mike Schroepfer announced developers were yanking Places from the then upcoming Firefox 2 release.
• Bon Echo/Firefox 2 Alpha 2 release.

2007

• Support for both Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 would be ending soon.
• Dell was going to offer (on some systems) Ubuntu & OpenOffice.org instead of Windows Vista and Office 2007
• The Guru begins to experiment with Ubuntu.

2008

• The failed takeover/merger of Yahoo! by Microsoft. Still not sure if Microsoft is truly done with Yahoo!
• The Guru starts using Firefox 3.0Beta5 as default browser.
• The Tweaks section on ffextensionguru.com was redesigned to add many new tweaks for Firefox 3.

2009

• Microsoft is sneaking the IE8 upgrade in as an Important Windows Update.
• In response to Google Chrome and IE8, Mozilla announced multi-process support coming to Firefox.
• Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1 announced for early June.

July 6 will be the 2-year anniversary of the launch of The Firefox Extension Guru’s Home then under the ffextensionguru.info domain.