Firefox 12 released and Mozilla drops support for Firefox 3

1 minute read time · Updated January 6, 2023

Firefox 12
Today sees the release of another significant browser update from Mozilla – Firefox 12. You can find out what’s new in the Release Notes for Firefox 12!

Today also marks the date when Mozilla are officially no longer supporting Firefox 3.6. Announcing this news last month, Mozilla urged everyone to update to at least version 4 saying “We strongly advise our users to upgrade from Firefox 3.6, as they will no longer receive critical security updates as of April 24th”

Our browser based booking app, MIDAS continues to run in Firefox 3.6 although we always strongly recommend using the most up-to-date browser version. You can find a list of which browsers and versions are supported on our Browser Requirements page.

Whilst the current version of MIDAS (v3.15) will run on Firefox 3.6, now that Mozilla no longer support Firefox 3.6, we will also be dropping support for Firefox 3.6 with our next update to MIDAS. We’re talk more about this in subsequent posts, so watch this space!

So if for some reason you’re still using Firefox 3.6, now’s the time to update your browser!

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Easter Discount on our Room Scheduling Software

1 minute read time · Updated April 15, 2025

Easter Deals To celebrate Easter, we’ve got our very own virtual Easter Egg Hunt underway! – Simply explore our main website https://mid.as this Easter, and find a large Easter egg hidden somewhere within the site.

If you can find the egg, crack it open by clicking it, and the egg will reveal a code you can use over the Easter weekend to get a very special discount off your purchase of our popular web based room scheduling software, MIDAS.

On behalf of our team, we wish you all a very Happy Easter!

PLEASE NOTE: This promotion ran during Easter 2012, and has since ended. To view our current prices, please visit https://mid.as/pricing

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New Tool to Check Your Server Can Run MIDAS

2 minute read time · Updated February 13, 2025

We offer our web based room scheduling software for download and use on your own web server, or alternatively if you don’t have access to a web server that meets our Minimum System Requirements, we can instead “host your MIDAS in the cloud“.

Today we’ve released a new tool to help you determine whether your web server is capable of running MIDAS. Our “Server Readiness” tool is a small Perl script which can be uploaded to your server, and then accessed through your web browser. This tool will then perform a series of tests on your server and alert you to any potential issues that may prevent your from installing and/or running MIDAS on your server. If issues are detected, the “Server Readiness” tool will offer helpful insights into how each issue may be addressed!

The Server Readiness script checks over 10 different parameters to ensure that you have the correct Perl modules installed on your server, no conflicting extensions are present, scripts can read/write to your server, there is enough free space remaining on your disk quota, and that your server is able to establish a connection to the internet.

Test your server configuration

The above is a screenshot of the “Server Readiness” tool finding no issues with a server.

Check your server configuration

The above is a screenshot of the “Server Readiness” tool finding an issue with the server’s configuration, and offering a solution to fix the problem.

How to use this tool:

  1. Download the servercheck.pl script
  2. Upload it to your server at the location where you plan on installing MIDAS
  3. Grant the script “execute” permission i.e. CHMOD 755 (if applicable to your server)
  4. If the location where Perl is located on your server isn’t “/usr/bin/perl” you may need to edit the first line of the servercheck.pl file to reflect the correct location
  5. Access the servercheck.pl file via its corresponding URL in your web browser and follow the on-screen instructions

UPDATE 18th May 2012:
We’ve just updated our Server Readiness tool in advance of the upcoming release of MIDAS v4 so you can ensure that your server is ready for this major update!

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Firefox 11 Released!

2 minute read time · Updated February 13, 2025

Firefox 11
In what’s been an almost monthly event now since August last year, Mozilla team have released another major increment to the version number of their Firefox web browser! Firefox 11 is now available for download. Once again, we’re bringing you this news before Mozilla have even updated their own Release Notes for Firefox 11!

Mozilla have also confirmed this past week that development work has now begun on a version of Firefox specifically for the new “Metro” interface of Windows 8.

Windows 8 Metro

One interesting point that Mozilla programmer Brian Bondy notes about this version of Firefox for the Windows 8 Metro interface, is that Microsoft have imposed restrictions. These restrictions mean that the “Metro” version of Firefox will only work if Firefox has been selected as the default web browser within Windows 8.

Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8We’ll be keeping a close eye on Windows 8 as it draws ever closer to a full release later this year. It’s currently in “Beta” – or as Microsoft are now calling it “Consumer Preview”. We have already tested our online room scheduling software, MIDAS, on Windows 8 Consumer Preview in the brand new Internet Explorer 10 (which is not currently available for earlier versions of Windows). We can confirm that the latest version of MIDAS is fully compatible with this new release of Internet Explorer!

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