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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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Mozilla to Develop Mobile OS
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Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Mozilla has announced plans for its own Mobile OS, Boot to Gecko or B2G for short. This is going to be somewhat based off the Android platform, but unlike the Android platform, B2G is going to be fully open source.The … Continue reading →

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An Emotional Connection To Their Firefox?
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Posted on July 25, 2011 by

At least that is what one person is purposing with Bug 661075. Flashbacks to Office 97 with Clippy come to mind (and ironically he/it is mentioned). I do like Comment 5 where the user feels Firefox is “a prosthetic limb … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General Mozilla, Microsoft, Other | 1 Comment

Wiki Updated for Firefox 8 Nightly (8.0a1)
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Posted on July 8, 2011 by

The tweaks and extensions sections on the Firefox Extensions Guru’s Wiki have been updated to reflect compatibility for Firefox 8 Nightly (8.0a1) Builds. Another ‘extensions check update’ will be performed in about 2-weeks on the wiki.

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Extension Install Tweaks
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Posted on June 12, 2011 by

As I was getting Firefox setup on my newly setup Mint system, I needed to make a couple about:config tweaks to make the process a little easier. Enable the ‘Install Button’ (Firefox 3.6 and older) In a new tab, type … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, Mint, Other, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

How to turn off RealPlayer “Download” button
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Posted on June 5, 2011 by

The newer versions of Real Player have added an annoying feature which will allow you to download a video playing in the browser. At first I thought disabling all the RealPlayer plugins within Firefox would take care of this. It … Continue reading →

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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

Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware
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Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Purveyors of fake security software don’t let much grass grow under their feet and continually make improvements to their social engineering lures. While most of the talk for the past month has been their move to Mac with fake Finder … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Us!
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Posted on May 1, 2011 by

On May 1, 2006, a blog was born. The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog that is. We debuted on Blogger but within a few months moved over to WordPress. The big Firefox news back in 2005 was the upcoming Firefox 2.0 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog News, Blogs, Firefox, Other, Site News, Year In Review | 4 Comments