Category Archives: Fx 8.0

Update: Windows 2000/XP SP1 Support Ending
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Back in July we wrote that support for Windows 2000 and XP SP1 would be ending with the Firefox 8 release (November 8, 2011) due to Mozilla moving to C++ 2010 compiler. Firefox 10 was released on January 31st and … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 12.0, Fx 13.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Microsoft, Windows | 1 Comment

Load Pinned Tabs on Demand Coming
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Posted on January 23, 2012 by

A while back I mentioned my unhappiness with a change Mozilla made in Firefox 9 with the new ‘Don’t load tabs until selected’ feature introduced in Firefox 8. For those who don’t recall the change, in Firefox 8 when this … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 12.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Firefox 8.0.1, Mac & Java Crashes Update Part 3
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Posted on December 9, 2011 by

The ‘patch’ mentioned earlier this week has landed on the Aurora (Firefox 10) and Beta (Firefox 9) channels on December 9, 2011. Mac users on OS X 10.6/10.7 using Firefox 8.0.1, will likely still need to wait until the Firefox … Continue reading →

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Firefox 8.0.1, Mac & Java Crashes Update Part 2
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Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Some clarification is needed here as to which versions of OS X are affected. Apple did not update Java on OS X 10.5 so there is no crash bug associated with this version. However, the latest Java update by Apple … Continue reading →

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Firefox 8.0.1, Mac & Java Crashes Update
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Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Looks like the developers are making some progress in getting the Java Applet based crashes with Firefox 8.0.1 on Mac under control. The latest news on bug 705931 is the crashes have stopped by increasing the default plugin cache size … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 8.0, Mac | 1 Comment

Ubuntu will now track Mozilla updates
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Posted on November 29, 2011 by

The Ubuntu developers are now tracking Mozilla’s rapid release cycle, releasing the updated version 8.0 of Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird. Previously, Ubuntu distributions would have stuck with the major version they were released with, say 3.0, and only updated to … Continue reading →

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Firefox 8.0.1: JAVA & Mac Crashes Continue
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Posted on November 29, 2011 by

I knew it seemed like things were a bit too quiet. Turns out, the email stopped working Wednesday night or Thursday morning.  Last night I started getting some emails on Bug 701537 (Tracking bug for build and release of Firefox … Continue reading →

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Not much news
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Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Not sure if folks are still recovering from ODing on Turkey over the long weekend or given today is Cyber Monday, but not much news on the Firefox front. Even at today’s Mozilla Weekly meeting, not much to report. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 8.0 | 1 Comment

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

More Default Favicon Choices
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Posted on November 22, 2011 by

In the Replace Firefox Default Favicon post we mentioned a couple User Scripts by Rob64Rock that allowed you to replace the new (and unimproved) default Favicon (now a dashed square) for pages and bookmark that did not have a Favicon. … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment