Daily Archives: January 29, 2010

Overriding Add-ons Compatibility Check
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by

With Firefox 3.6, Mozilla has changed the way users can override the default add-ons compatibility check. WARNING: Bypassing the built-in add-ons compatibility check thus forcing Firefox to allow the installation of incompatible add-ons can cause Firefox to become unstable and/or … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 3.7, Fx 4.0, Tips & Tweaks | 2 Comments

Changing Mousewheel Behaviors
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by

I came across these tweaks while searching for a solution on how to fix my issue with autoscrolling (which turned out to be a software issue, not Firefox). I’ll admit that I never really use the mousewheel (scroll wheel) in … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, Fx 3.6, Fx 3.7, Fx 4.0, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Change Autoscrolling
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I actually was looking for information on how to enable this feature as I had thought it had become disabled with the newer Firefox releases. For those who are not familiar with autoscrolling, it allows you to quickly scroll through … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Fx 3.6: Scroll Acceleration Tweak
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by

Here’s an interesting feature that was planned for Firefox 3.6, but not all the kinks have been worked out so it is disabled by default. The idea behind this feature is if you have already scrolled through a page a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Firefox 3.0.X/3.5.X Support
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With the release of Firefox 3.6 earlier this month Mozilla will be ending support for both Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 soon. While I have not seen anything official, Firefox 3 support will likely end with the release of Firefox … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, Fx 3.6, Fx 3.7, Fx 4.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment

Fx 3.6: Tab Preview Tweaks
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by

In the early days of development of Firefox 3.1/3.5 there was a planned ‘Tab Preview’ feature for displaying thumbnails when switching between tabs similar to the Windows Vista/7 Alt+Tab interface. For whatever reason this feature ended up being scrapped from … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Firefox, Fx 3.5, Fx 3.6, Tips & Tweaks | 2 Comments