Category Archives: Fx 9.0

Firefox Release Recap: November 19, 2011
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Posted on November 19, 2011 by

Just Released Firefox 9 Beta 2 – November 18th Coming Soon Firefox 8.0.1 – Week of November 21st December 20th Firefox 3.6.25 Firefox 9 Final Release Firefox 9 for Android Final Release Firefox 10 Beta (10.0b1)* Firefox 11 Aurora (10.0a2)* … Continue reading →

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Firefox 9.0 Beta 2 Released
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Posted on November 18, 2011 by

Firefox 9.0 Beta 2 has been pushed to the Beta Channel. Beta 1 users can update via Help  > About Firefox…  

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Tab Utilities
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

I was pointed to this add-on in the Firefox Builds forum when I had first inquired why my App Tabs were loading in Firefox 9 Beta upon start-up even though I had Don’t load tabs until selected checked. I had … Continue reading →

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Changes to “Don’t Load Tabs” option
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

Firefox 9 is going to bring a change to the new Don’t load tabs until selected feature which was introduced in Firefox 8. In Firefox 8, when Don’t load tabs until selected option is checked, ALL tabs (normal and pinned/app) … Continue reading →

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Clear Firefox Button
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Posted on November 13, 2011 by

As a result of the UI changes in Firefox 8 with the inverted (white) icons, the add-on App Button Clear does not work correctly. Besides being ‘incompatible’, when the add-on is forced to work in Firefox 8, it turns the … Continue reading →

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Firefox Release Recap: November 12, 2011
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Posted on November 12, 2011 by

Just Released Firefox 3.6.24 – November 8th Firefox 8 Desktop & Android – November 8th Firefox 9 Beta (9.0b1) Desktop & Android – November 10th Firefox 10 Aurora (10.0a2) Desktop & Android – November 11th Coming Soon December 20th Firefox … Continue reading →

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Brief 1.6b1
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Posted on November 11, 2011 by

The Brief feed-reader extension was last updated on April 8th, 2011 which was shortly after Firefox 4 was release. There are some issues with using Brief in Firefox 6 and newer. While the add-on says it will work for Firefox … Continue reading →

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