Category Archives: IE

Firefox vs Chrome Versions
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Posted on February 19, 2012 by

I keep hearing many complaints on how Mozilla is moving too fast with the Firefox updates with Rapid Release. I have said time and time again, that nothing has changed, other than the numbering. Mozilla was releasing updates every six … Continue reading →

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Flash Update — Check Your Plugins
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Posted on February 17, 2012 by

Adobe released an update to Flash on February 15th to address an exploit that affected Internet Exploiter users. Even if you don’t use IE, you should still update your Flash plugins. Also this would a good time to check on … Continue reading →

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Dumb People Fall For Fake Survey
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Posted on August 3, 2011 by

Okay, so it is not true that Dumb People Use IE.Seems this was all a hoax and The Guru fell for it, as did The Seattle PI, CNN, NPR and many more news outlets. Today, AptiQuant – the “company” behind … Continue reading →

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Dumb People Use Internet Explorer
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Posted on July 29, 2011 by

…at least that was this survey of 100,000 people says from Vancouver, B.C.-based AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting. Source: Seattle PI: Microsoft Blog  

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Trimmed URLs coming to Firefox 7
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Posted on July 1, 2011 by

Last week a new feature landed on the Firefox 7 Nightly Builds. Bug 665580 removes the ‘http://’ from the address bar and just displays the remainder of the URL and also omitting the trialing /. So in Firefox 7 the … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, IE, Microsoft, Tips & Tweaks | 3 Comments

Why It Is Important to Update
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Posted on June 27, 2011 by

A Public Service Announcement from the Guru. I am not just talking about Firefox, but more importantly your browser plugins (Flash, JAVA, QuickTime, etc) and yes even those Windows Updates too. The below two articles are from a colleague’s blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.5, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, IE, Microsoft, Security, Windows | Leave a comment

Firefox 7 UI Change
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Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Update: First off thanks for the comments. Looks like I missed something, like the fact that I was running Firefox 7 Nightly maximized. Normally I only have the browser window only partial of the screen-width.  But this does bring up … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, Google, IE, Microsoft | 9 Comments

A Small Sneak Peek at ‘Windows 8′
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Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Well, this is certainly a major change for the next Windows operating system (code name Windows 8). Yahoo! says the new user interface is a lot like that of the Windows Phone UI. Big design emphasis to run on touch-screen … Continue reading →

Posted in IE, Microsoft, Other, Windows '8' | 1 Comment

Clear Cache & Cookies – The Easy Way
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Posted on May 31, 2011 by

One question I tend to get a lot is ‘How Do I Clear My Cache and Cookies in Firefox?‘.  I will give Microsoft kudos for making this process fairly simple (three steps) in Internet Explorer 9. Mozilla, on the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, IE, Microsoft, Tips & Tweaks, Windows, Windows 7 | 2 Comments

No IE10 for Windows Vista
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Posted on April 18, 2011 by

It seems the preview for IE10 release by Microsoft last week will only work on Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) and the future Windows 8. Microsoft has already shut-out Windows XP users from IE9, so now they are following suit … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, IE, Microsoft, Vista, Windows, Windows '8', Windows 7 | 1 Comment