Monthly Archives: October 2011

Forecastfox Weather
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Posted on October 31, 2011 by

For the longest time I had used the Weather Bug extension as I was a subscriber to their Windows desktop widget. However, once Firefox 4 was released the extension stopped working. For a long while their website said they were … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Browsers, Firefox, Google | 1 Comment

Mac User with Mouse Pointer Problems
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Posted on October 30, 2011 by

A Mac user recently contacted The Guru regarding Mouse Pointer problems which had started earlier in the week. Since I have really no idea what is causing this and also since I am not a Mac user, I am re-posting … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 7.0, Other | 1 Comment

pdf.js PDF Reader
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Posted on October 29, 2011 by

pdf.js is a Firefox extension being developed by Mozilla Labs which uses HTML5 to display PDF files within Firefox without the need of a PDF browser plugin such as Adobe Reader or FoxIt Reader (note: you will still need one … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | Leave a comment

Add-On To Resolve Browser Issues
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Posted on October 21, 2011 by

I haven’t tried this yet but if it works as advertised should make a lot of folks happy. Here is a list of some of the configuration options that FeatureFix provides: Change the default Firefox source code viewer Define where … Continue reading →

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Firefox 10 Nightly Windows Updates Resuming Soon
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Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Automatic updates for Firefox 10 Nightly Windows (x32 and x64) builds had been temporally disabled earlier this week due to start up crashes with ‘Windows 8′ [Bug 695161]. It appears this issue has been corrected on 10/20/11 and quite possibly … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, General Mozilla, Windows '8' | 4 Comments

New AMO Features Released
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Posted on October 20, 2011 by

A couple new features landed on AMO (addons.mozilla.org) this week. The first is an improved search feature which will show results/suggestions as you type. Also, there are some add-ons that are dependent on another add-on in order to work. While … Continue reading →

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

Firefox having amnesia on ‘graceful’ exits
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Posted on October 20, 2011 by

I’d been dealing with an odd issue for a while in that Firefox would not remember my tabs from the prior session when I exited the browser gracefully (Firefox Menu > Quit). Now if I did a restart (such as … Continue reading →

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Restore Firefox Address Bar to Pre-Firefox 6
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Posted on October 19, 2011 by

While we did post this back in July when this feature had landed on the nightly builds for Firefox 7, we felt it was worth posting again. We’ve also included the tweak to turn off the Domain Highlighting feature which … Continue reading →

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

Firefox 3.6 Support Ending Early 2012
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Posted on October 18, 2011 by

Support for Firefox 3.6 may will end when Firefox 10 is released on January 31, 2012 or Firefox 11 on March 13, 2012. So how did Mozilla arrive at this time frame? Well, it is 12-weeks from the initial release … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment

Changes to Firefox for Android UI
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Posted on October 17, 2011 by

Mozilla has announced they will be moving away from using XUL (eXtensible User interface Language, an XML grammar used by Mozilla to define user interfaces for Firefox and Thunderbird) in favor of using Android’s own Native user interface. The main … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Firefox For Android, Firefox for Tablets, Fx 10.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | 2 Comments