Category Archives: Microsoft

Firefox for Metro Planned
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Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Interesting post over on Tom’s Hardware about Mozilla’s plan to create a special Firefox to support the upcoming Windows 8 (or whatever Microsoft ends up calling it) Metro Interface. For those not quite familiar with the planned Metro, interface it … Continue reading →

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64-bit Varients – Windows
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Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7By Howard Wen, Network World February 13, 2012 08:08 AM ET Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon … Continue reading →

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Future of Firefox: Firefox 3.6, 10.0, ESR and beyond
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by

There has been a lot happening this week with Firefox and a result a lot of activity on this blog recently. Here is a brief summary of what has happened so far: Firefox 3.6.26 Released Firefox 10.0 Desktop and Android … Continue reading →

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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

Silent Updates Moving Forward
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Posted on January 17, 2012 by

From the January 9th, 2012 Mozilla Weekly Status meeting was mention that “The biggest piece of Silent Update landed: a Windows service so updates don’t require UAC prompts.” The link takes you to the feature page, but really doesn’t provide … Continue reading →

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Firefox 9.0.1 Released
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Posted on December 21, 2011 by

An emergency update for Firefox was released today,. Firefox 9.0.1 addresses a crash upon startup after updating to Firefox 9.0 for mainly Mac users. However, Linux and Windows users were not immune to this crash either, just a lot less … Continue reading →

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Update: Firefox 9.0 Released
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Posted on December 20, 2011 by

A quick update on the Firefox 9.0 release. At this time Windows, Android and possibly Linux versions have been released. Currently there are issues with startup crashes for Mac users on Firefox 9.0 and this release has been pulled. Mac … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple/Mac, Browsers, Firefox, Firefox For Android, Firefox for Tablets, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Linux, Windows | 2 Comments

How to Defend from Keyloggers
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Posted on December 20, 2011 by

     …Keystroke logging is the act of intercepting typed keys before they are displayed to the screen, then logging them to a file. This allows for intrusion and access to data—even passwords…” Source: businessinsider.com | WonderHowTo    | Dec. 20, 2011 How … Continue reading →

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Restoring default about:config settings
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Posted on December 5, 2011 by

While it is easy to make customizations via Firefox’s about:config manager, it can also be easy to really mess things up. Hence the reason Mozilla has the below warning (which replaced Be Careful,This gun is loaded! warning starting with Firefox 3) … Continue reading →

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Firefox 8.0.1 Released
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Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Mozilla has pushed out an emergency update to Firefox 8.0.0 on November 21st to select users. This update addressed two top crash bugs in Firefox 8.0.0: Bug 699134 – RoboForm versions 7.6.2 and OLDER on all platforms crashes Firefox 8.0 … Continue reading →

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