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Firestorm’s Tool Tip Tuesday 09

2015/02/25 by Nalates Urriah

It was Tuesday again. Seems to happen every week. This last Tuesday another FS Tip came out. In this one Jessica is teaching us about the command line available in the Firestorm Viewer’s chat. This is one of the way neat things about the Firestorm Viewer. There are plenty of neat features. But, this command line … Read more

Firestorm’s Tuesday Tip 2015-08

2015/02/17 by Nalates Urriah

This week is the power users tool: Contact Sets. They have a 6 minute video. This is a must know tool for those team combat games. It allows you create groups of people and to set those people to show as a specific color on the mini-map. If you work with lots of people in … Read more

Firestorm Viewer 4.6.1 to be Blocked

2015/02/16 by Nalates Urriah

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The Firestorm Team announced last Friday (2/13) that they will be blocking their viewer version 4.6.1. Versions 4.6.5, 4.6.7 and 4.6.9 will be the only versions that can log into Second Life. They strongly advise that you upgrade to and use version 4.6.9.

Official Firestorm Announcement is here.

An exception is being made for version 4.4.2 on the Mac side. The problems from Apple’s change to Cocoa have been the reason for this version being allowed to stay on the grid. The Linden position is the problems are from Apple’s upgrades and they are fixed in new Apple Operating System (OS) versions. I understand the updates are free, so there is little reason not to upgrade. But, old hardware can be a problem. But, some decent machines are going for US$200 on eBay.

New Firestorm Release Coming

2015/02/14 by Nalates Urriah

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The Firestorm (FS) team is tentatively planning a viewer release for March, which they hope will have all the Linden updates and bring FS current with the SL Viewer. There is some concern about whether the Lab will have Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM) ready in time for the FS Team to integrate it into FS for the next release.

The anticipated release for VMM is near the FS feature freeze window for the March release date for FS’ new version. That means the FS people have to rush the inclusion or delay the release, if the Lab hits their early release date, which could happen. I wouldn’t bet on it. But, I also wouldn’t bet against it.

Firestorm Viewer Tool Tip Tuesdays

2015/01/30 by Nalates Urriah

Others are covering this new service provided by the Firestorm peeps. So, I’ll be brief. The Firestorm Viewer is the power user’s viewer of choice. But, even power users can’t know all the features rolled into this pretty awesome viewer. Many of the features are things you would probably use if you knew about them. … Read more

Firestorm Viewer 4.6.9-42696 Released

2014/12/15 by Nalates Urriah

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We knew it was coming. Now it is out, Firestorm 4.6.9-42696. The first release out hit a snag. These issues were a problem for a number of people:

FIRE-15122 Voice connection is lost after Teleport on OpenSim Grids
FIRE-15110 rlva @getattach does not work
FIRE-15101 Bottom toolbar buttons show in mouselook
FIRE-15085 Object view not working in build 4.6.9.42969
FIRE-14471 Editing quick prefs crash

If you go to get a new Firestorm version, you’ll find that only version 4.6.9-42974 is available for download. If you have version 42696 and are NOT having problems then there is no reason to get the slightly newer release.