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Firefox 4 Beta 2 Breaking Extensions
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Posted on July 23, 2010 by

This recent news concerning the next Beta release of Firefox 4 which is due out either later today or Monday surprises me. While it is not unusual for developmental releases to break current extensions it seems odd that Mozilla would … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 4.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment

Stuck on Firefox 3.6.3pre
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Posted on April 9, 2010 by

After my earlier Firefox Lorentz Beta Released post, I noticed something didn’t seem quite right with my Firefox nightly build. For one thing I had not seen the Mozilla Runtime Environment (mozilla-runtime.exe) kicking in for Flash sites. I also kept … Continue reading →

Posted in 3, Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Links, Thunderbird, Windows | 1 Comment

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

1 Billion Downloads…and counting!
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Posted on July 31, 2009 by

A huge milestone has been reached today with the Firefox download counter rolling over to 1 Billion (that is 1 with nine zeros at the end!) To think, a little under a year and half ago (February 22, 2008) Firefox … Continue reading →

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Tip: Run Multiple Firefox Profiles/Versions Simultaneously
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Posted on March 23, 2009 by

Ever tried to start Firefox while is it is running? Doesn’t work, you will get an error saying Firefox is already running. I have seen a trick over at CyberNet involving installing a portable version of Firefox, but that seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, Tips & Tweaks | 14 Comments

Tip: Dragging Current Page to Bookmarks Folder
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Posted on December 10, 2008 by

In the past couple months I really started taking advantage of The Bookmarks Toolbar function. This is especially true at work as there are frequent help articles I need to reference and/or email to customer.  I have about 3 or … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 3.5, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Google in 2001
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by

As part of the celebration of their 10th Birthday this year, Google has created a special section. This special section rolls back to 2001 in not only looks (less search options) and the index as it was in January 2001.  … Continue reading →

Posted in CyberNet, Firefox, Google, Other | 2 Comments

Chrome Themes For Firefox
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Posted on September 8, 2008 by

Within less than a week of the release of Chrome, comes a couple Firefox 3 Themes based on the new browser by Google. The first theme Chromifox features the sky blue colour scheme as well as the compact navigation bar … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 3.0, Google | Tagged | 5 Comments

TBird Logos
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Posted on August 14, 2008 by

I had mentioned in the TBird 3 (Shredder) Alpha 2 Released post, I was not too thrilled with the ‘new’ logo. As it turns out this is not a new logo after all. Kevin left the following comment: That’s actually … Continue reading →

Posted in 3, CyberNet, Thunderbird | Leave a comment

Firefox 3.1a1/Shiretoko Released
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Posted on July 29, 2008 by

When I had last checked the Mozilla Releases Calendar earlier yesterday, it had showed Firefox 3.1a1 (Shiretoko) wouldn’t be released until ‘Early August’. Well, Mozilla has turn around and already release the first developer’s milestone, Alpha 1. One of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 3.5, General Mozilla, Releases | 1 Comment