Monthly Archives: June 2011

Malware disguises itself as a microsoft update
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Posted on June 9, 2011 by

…Like a previous attack that produced a fake Firefox security alert, the malware comes up when a user-agent string is detected from a Firefox user browsing a malicious web site. This time though, it comes up with a replica of … Continue reading →

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Move Stop/Go/Reload to Left Side
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Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Firefox 4 introduced the Combined Stop/Reload button, which placed a unified stop/reload button on the right side of the address bar. While it possible to uncouple the buttons and move them separated, there is no way to move the unified … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 8 Comments

Firefox 4 Move Tabs To Top Tweak
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Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Okay, so The Guru made a minor observation error with the Firefox 7 Nightly UI post. However, as a result of this post a reader posted a userChrome.css tweak that will allow you have your tabs on the very top … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Firefox 7 UI Change
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Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Update: First off thanks for the comments. Looks like I missed something, like the fact that I was running Firefox 7 Nightly maximized. Normally I only have the browser window only partial of the screen-width.  But this does bring up … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, Google, IE, Microsoft | 9 Comments

Toolbar Icons on Tab Bar
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Posted on June 6, 2011 by

I was looking through the Thunderbird builds board on mozillaZine when I came across a thread asking about having toolbar (icons) next to the tabs in Thunderbird like you could in Firefox. I didn’t quite understand this thread the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Thunderbird, Tips & Tweaks | 6 Comments

How to turn off RealPlayer “Download” button
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Posted on June 5, 2011 by

The newer versions of Real Player have added an annoying feature which will allow you to download a video playing in the browser. At first I thought disabling all the RealPlayer plugins within Firefox would take care of this. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Other, Tips & Tweaks | Leave a comment

Add-ons Disabled – Updated for Gecko 2.0
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Posted on June 4, 2011 by

A slight update to the Add-on(s) Disabled by Firefox post from earlier this year. Gecko 2.0 added the file extensions.sqlite to the ‘extensions’ files. Firefox 4.0 and newer include this particular file. We have updated the Wiki to reflect these … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Tips & Tweaks | Leave a comment

Firefox Release Recap: June 2011 Week 1
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Posted on June 4, 2011 by

Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.18 – June 21st Firefox 5 Final Release – June 21st Firefox 5 for Mobile Final Release – June 21st Firefox 6 Beta – July 5th* Firefox 6 Final … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0 | Leave a comment

Facebook Page Updates
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Posted on June 3, 2011 by

Due to us moving the blog to the new server (which we did because we moved to a more enhanced blog platform) updates to the Facebook Firefox Page were not getting posted. After much research on the WordPress side to … Continue reading →

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Plugin Check Coming to Firefox 6
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Posted on June 3, 2011 by

A while back Mozilla introduced their Plugin Check site, which allowed users to check to see if the plugins they had installed within Firefox were the most current. This site also have the users the ability to easily get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 6.0, General Mozilla | 4 Comments