Category Archives: Fx 4.0

Unhide Forward Button in Firefox 11
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Posted on November 23, 2011 by

For whatever reason, Mozilla has decided starting with Firefox 11 to hide the forward button when you can not go forward. For once, this is not something that Mozilla has copied from Google Chrome, as the forward button is always … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Google, Tips & Tweaks | 3 Comments

omni.jar to become omni.ja
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Posted on November 16, 2011 by

Bug 701875 was created a few days ago to address a major issue with Windows and Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4.0+/Thunderbird 5.0+). omni.jar is a core file for Gecko 2.0 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. From MDN: Firefox 4 and Thunderbird … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Other | Leave a comment

FaviconizeTab
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

While Tab Utilities has a lot of stuff to offer, the only feature I really needed was to have the ability to Faviconize a tab. As B. Moore pointed out, there is add-on that does just that, FaviconizeTab. For those … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Facebook Update
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

We’ve made it easier to get to us on Facebook now. We can now be found at facebook.com/ffextensionguru. We are also trying to add more content such as the recent poll about App Tabs to go along with the posts … Continue reading →

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App Tabs
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

Back when Firefox 4.0 rolled out in March one of the (many) new features was a little something called App Tabs. This was something borrowed from Chrome and even we didn’t really understand the correct use of this feature when … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Facebook, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | Leave a comment

Starting with a Fresh Profile
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Posted on November 11, 2011 by

Updated 11/16/2011: Added info for backup and restore of Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts. Also added new step in the Starting Over section. If you’ve been using the same profile since Firefox 3.6  (or older) you may run into performance issues … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 13 Comments

OpenDownload²
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Posted on November 8, 2011 by

A reader commented about my add-ons screenshot, that I was running OpenDownload 1.0.0 which has not been updates since January 2007 (Firefox 2.0.0.1 was the newest release back then). I’ve been forcing the extension to work either via Nightly Tester … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | 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

AMO Changes to Incompatible Add-ons
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Posted on September 9, 2011 by

In the past while addons.mozilla.org (AMO) would indicate an add-on was not compatible with the user’s version of Firefox, it would still allow the user to try and install the incompatible add-on. The user would get a warning that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla | 4 Comments

Remove Unsorted Bookmarks Item
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Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Unsorted Bookmarks are those which were created by clicking the bookmark star. This item can not be removed (even when empty) from the Bookmarks Menu via the delete option in the context menu.To remove the Unsorted Bookmarks item from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 7 Comments