Category Archives: Go Firefox!

Changing Spellcheck Language
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Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Recently there was post in Go Firefox! in which the user had installed the British English Dictionary add-on but the spellchecker was still using the US English dictionary. There is an additional step once you have installed the new dictionary … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 Update Issues
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Posted on March 31, 2011 by

Some people at Go Firefox! have reported some issues when attempting to upgrade from Firefox 3.6.16 to Firefox 4 on Windows. A couple I have seen include: Error 0×00000004 in firefox.exe Reboot required to complete update. User get this message … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 3.7, Fx 4.0, Go Firefox!, Tips & Tweaks, Windows | Leave a comment

Why Firefox 4 isn’t abandoning Windows XP
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Posted on March 19, 2011 by

gareon posted this article at Go Firefox! as a follow up to the article earlier this week on how IE9 does not support Windows XP. …More than 40 percent of web users are still on Windows XP. And that’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 4.0, General Mozilla, Go Firefox!, IE, Microsoft | 1 Comment

Beware of Fake Update Page
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Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Recently there has been a fake Firefox update page (see below) has been floating around the web. This page not only tells the user they are running an out-dated version of Firefox, but that they need to update Adobe Flash … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blog News, Blogs, Firefox, General Mozilla, Go Firefox!, Links, Other, Site News | Tagged , | 4 Comments

IE Tab +
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Posted on June 18, 2010 by

Support for the ‘original’ IE Tab ended with Firefox 3.5 in June 2009. I believe it was through Go Firefox! I learned about IE Tab +. The extension not only supports Firefox 3.6 but also has an integrated version of … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 3.7, Fx 4.0, Go Firefox!, IE | 3 Comments

Win XP Users: IE Can Be Hazardous to Firefox
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Posted on April 21, 2010 by

Below is part of an article Gareon had posted on Go Firefox! Although I live in Windows, I avoid Internet Explorer – its the Defensive Computing thing to do. My approach is the same as Steve Gibson’s, we run IE … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.5, Fx 3.6, Fx 3.7, Go Firefox!, IE, Microsoft, Other, Windows | 4 Comments

New Contributor: Gareon
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Posted on February 13, 2010 by

When I started this blog nearly 5-years ago I would have no idea how much it would grow. I spend a lot of my time breaking testing Firefox and many of the posts lately have been more technical or release … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Blocks Microsoft Plugin & Add-on
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by

You would think Microsoft would have learned its lesson after all the negative backlash with the Microsoft .NET Spyware Extension. But this is Microsoft we are talking about. Earlier today I got an odd pop-up window from Firefox: The Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blog News, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.5, General Mozilla, Go Firefox!, Google, IE, Microsoft, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Fire.fm
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Posted on March 20, 2009 by

Once again I have found another great add-on thanks to Gareon at GoFirefox! Last week he had posted a link to the article Mashable: 16 Great Music Add-Ons for Firefox. I had commented about FoxyTunes being one of the 16 … Continue reading →

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TBird Signatures|Signature Switch
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Posted on March 1, 2009 by

I have tried unsuccessfully for quite a while to have a background image in my TBird message signatures. Never really made sense why it would not work as the file looked fine in my HTML editor. Sure, I could add … Continue reading →

Posted in 2, 3, Add-ons, Blogs, Go Firefox!, Thunderbird | 2 Comments