Daily Archives: May 31, 2011

Disable Addon Compatibility Checking Fx 7
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Posted on May 31, 2011 by

I mentioned in the Add-on Compatibility Reporter post, I had installed Firefox 7 Nightly but was having trouble getting the addon comparability ‘safe-guard’ turned off via an about:config tweak as I had in the past for other developmental builds. Girish … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Firefox, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment

Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware
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Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Purveyors of fake security software don’t let much grass grow under their feet and continually make improvements to their social engineering lures. While most of the talk for the past month has been their move to Mac with fake Finder … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, General Mozilla, Other, Security | Leave a comment

Clear Cache & Cookies – The Easy Way
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Posted on May 31, 2011 by

One question I tend to get a lot is ‘How Do I Clear My Cache and Cookies in Firefox?‘.  I will give Microsoft kudos for making this process fairly simple (three steps) in Internet Explorer 9. Mozilla, on the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, IE, Microsoft, Tips & Tweaks, Windows, Windows 7 | 2 Comments