Old WordPress posts randomly change dates
Maybe you have noticed past few days that the first posts that I’ve published back in 2009 were presented on the first page for a while. I did not know why this has happened so I’ve changed the dates back to original manually via Quick Edit function. Everything seemed OK, but several days later some of the oldest posts were seen as posted just hours ago. Leather, rinse, repeat – I changed the dates manually again.
I was afraid there was something wrong with my WordPress installation (or a new bug?) so I’ve dome some research. Everything was fine with my installation – I have discovered why this was happening.
It was one of the features of SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 plugin that I have installed. One of its features is to Promote old post with no search engine traffic and it was checked by default. Well, this promotion meant that posts were re-published or that, as it seemed to me, their date of publication is changed somehow.
I have unchecked the Promote old post with no search engine traffic option and now the dats of my WordPress posts will stay as they were ment to be – not changed at all.
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Firefox 4 release candidate 2 (RC2) released
Ten days after the first Firefox 4 release candidate the second one (RC2) was released. According to Mozilla milestones this is the last release candidate before the final release of Firefox 4 that will take place on Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
So what’s new in RC2? According to Mozilla Wiki “Two very small, very isolated fixes in order to better protect Firefox 4 users.”
I have switched to FF4 RC1 several days ago (and upgraded to RC2 today), so the final release won’t be that of a change for me. If you haven’t upgraded yet, start making sure that all add-ons you use are compatible with FF4 and working.
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My primary browser is Firefox 4 RC1
Until now my primary browser was Firefox 3.6. I’ve been a Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox user for 16 years now, so I am eager to upgrade to new versions, find new functionalities and use them to make my browsing faster, easier, safer and more efficient.
Even when using FF3.6 as my primary browser I’ve had several betas and preview versions of Firefox 4 installed to test it and see how suitable it is (I have reported my findings on this blog). In January I considered switching to beta9pre or beta10pre, but it wasn’t ready yet, mainly because of the missing add-ons. Again I have considered a switch in the start of March, this time to beta13pre with a great add-on – Add-on Compatibility Reporter – that enabled most of my missing add-ons. I almost switched, but something still wasn’t right, because I didn’t.
When Firefox 4 release candidate was released, I installed it and tried to switch again. This time it worked: I have enabled all my add-ons and only two don’t work as they should. The first one is Bartab and I really miss it; the second one is Print/Print Preview which I won’t miss that much.
The first thing I did was to clean up my open tabs. My browsing habits leave a lot of opened tabs that I want to get back later or keep as reminders. I usually have more than 100 tabs open (right now I have 99) and that has two consequences: first, it’s hard to navigate between and find the right tabs and second, it consumes heaps of computer memory. The new feature of Firefox 4, Panorama (formerly known as Eye Candy) solved the first problem. I have arranged tabs into groups, created several pinned tabs for mail, calendar and docs, and mapped a mouse gesture to open Panorama view (4 mouse moves instead of CTRL-Shift-E). The second problem, use of memory, was handled by Bartab add-on in FF3.6. It’s use is simple – after some time it unloads unused tabs from memory so more memory is available. It worked great for me in FF3.6 (most of the time memory used was 600KB or top 1GB), but in FF4 Bartab doesn’t work as expected. The author is aware of this but couldn’t promise when or even that he will fix it. There is a new beta version of the add-on but the problem with it under FF4 is that it doesn’t load unloaded tabs when clicked on them. I have to reload them manually (which is not that hard, but it nags me). Without use of Bartab unloading tabs the memory used spikes above 1,3 GB just when I run the browser. Also, it’s much less responsive if tabs are all loaded.
The bottom line is that my primary browser is now Firefox 4. It’s faster, but only when all my tabs have loaded. Also, switching between tabs or exiting the program is slower. Sometimes, when I change tabs, my computer freezes for a very short time (mouse doesn’t move), which is the same behaviour that I get from Chrome with several tabs open for a longer time. FF4 is already better than my FF3.6, but with fixed Bartab I could say it’s all I need (for now).
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