Category Archives: Site News

Adblock Plus to start allowing ‘non-intrusive ads’
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Posted on December 13, 2011 by

Ads on websites are a bit of a touchy subject. Sites do need money to stay ‘alive’ and advertising (and in our case as well donations) helps pay the bills. However, there is a limit to what can be consider … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Browsers, Firefox, General Mozilla, Google, Site News | 4 Comments

Follow-Up: Attack Page Mishap
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Posted on November 22, 2011 by

A quick follow-up to our Attack Page Mishap earlier this month. We have discovered the compromise was not with WordPress or the WP Backup Plugin, but instead with the ZenPhoto application. I use Zen Photo for the gallery on my … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog News, Blogs, Other, Security, Site News | 1 Comment

Wiki Updates
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Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Over the past couple days, we have gone through and updated the Wiki. The Extensions section has been updated for Firefox 7.0 and 8.0 compatibility and about a dozen new extensions that have already been discussed on the blog were … Continue reading →

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Facebook Update
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

We’ve made it easier to get to us on Facebook now. We can now be found at facebook.com/ffextensionguru. We are also trying to add more content such as the recent poll about App Tabs to go along with the posts … Continue reading →

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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.

Posted in Firefox, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Other, Site News | 1 Comment

Wiki Improvements
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Posted on June 17, 2011 by

Some of you may have noticed we made a slight change to the color scheme on the FF Extension Guru Wiki. We had noticed the links were not visible and have since made them more visible.  We have also made … Continue reading →

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Firefox for Mobile
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Posted on June 1, 2011 by

While we did say that we had ‘no big plans’ for this year we are launching a new category, Firefox for Mobile. This category is going to be reserved for release and support information as well as extension reviews for … 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

Firefox 5.0 Aurora (Alpha 2) Released
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Posted on April 14, 2011 by

Mozilla has released the first Aurora build of Firefox 5,  Alpha 2 on April 12th. Firefox 5 is the first release being done under Mozilla’s new aggressive development plan.  Here is how the plan works, there are 4 stages or … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, General Mozilla, Releases, Site News | 3 Comments

Wiki Updated
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Posted on April 2, 2011 by

When I brought the Wiki over at the beginning of the year, I didn’t do much with it other than get it setup on the WordPress platform. It had been moved from MediaWiki, which is the same platform that Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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