Have just read a great review of the soon to be launched Firefox 3. This is available from Computer World and mentions five key improvements – easier downloads, an enhanced address bar, easier bookmarking, a much improved bookmark organizer and better memory management.

At QBS PC Help we love Firefox and promote it heavily to all our customers and friends, so this new version will be tried and tested once its on general release.

Look out for our own review of Firefox 3 in 2008!

Source: Computer World

When firing up Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop and Bridge today (CS3 versions), to work on a new website, everything crashed after a few minutes with the message “AMT Subsystem Error -The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer support.”

None of the programs would open so I trawled the Adobe website for an answer and found a useful Tech Note which offers a number of work-a-rounds. This can be found at:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402004.html

As it turned out I just rebooted our PC’s and all the CS3 suite programs opened up.

They have remained stable for the last few hours so the problem seems to be solved.

With web site accessibility high on the UK Governments agenda web designers should certainly incorporate standards of design that allow site access to everyone, regardless of their health.

Our latest article looks at accessibility issues and suggests a few ideas you can easily adopt when designing your own web sites.

To view this latest article please click here.

Firefox currently has a staggering 125 million global users, according to figures released by a Mozilla executive.

The figure comes courtesy of John Lilly, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, who arrives at the result by analysing the statistical data collected through the browser’s update service.

As explained on Lilly’s blog, Firefox pings the update servers every day to check for patches and new versions, and by counting those pings he says it is possible for Mozilla to make a rough guess at how many instances of the browser are running.

He labels these Active Daily Users (ADU), and says that taken as an average over seven days, the number of ADUs has skyrocketed from 23 million in October 2006 to 48 million in November.

Source: PC Pro