Category Archives: Tips & Tweaks

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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Firefox 10 Released
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Posted on January 31, 2012 by

Mozilla has released the next version of Firefox on Tuesday, January 31st. What’s new in Firefox 10: The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back [Tweak: Unhide Forward Button] Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of … Continue reading →

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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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Load Pinned Tabs on Demand Coming
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Posted on January 23, 2012 by

A while back I mentioned my unhappiness with a change Mozilla made in Firefox 9 with the new ‘Don’t load tabs until selected’ feature introduced in Firefox 8. For those who don’t recall the change, in Firefox 8 when this … Continue reading →

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Standalone Images Displayed on Dark Background Firefox 11/12
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Posted on December 24, 2011 by

As I am getting caught up in the Firefox Builds forums, came across an odd (and not good) change to Firefox Aurora 11 (11.0a2) and Nightly 12 (12.0a1). A patch related to Bug 376997 makes it so that when an … Continue reading →

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Remove Extra Plugin Containers
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Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Windows Only Firefox Nightly Windows (especially those on 64-Bit) users who monitor their tasks/processes may notice extra plugin container processes lingering for quite some time after use. Nightly opens extra plugin containers for additional activities such as viewing a YouTube … Continue reading →

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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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How To Downgrade Firefox Add-ons
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Posted on December 19, 2011 by

 It sometimes happens that one of your favorite add-ons gets an update that you are not happy about. A new add-on version can for instance break functionality, introduce changes that you do not want or decrease the browser’s stability or … Continue reading →

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Always Up-to-Date Power User’s Guide to Firefox
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Posted on December 13, 2011 by

 Now that Firefox is on a rapid release cycle, we’re getting a new version of Firefox every three months—and each time, it becomes more tricked out than ever with new customization options, shortcuts, and convenient features hidden away in its … 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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