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Hack and tweak your Firefox

by Darice de Cuba
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Hack and tweak your Firefox

Despite the wide variety of web browsers available I’m still a daily Firefox user. I could never get used to Safari or Camino. I do use Chrome for testing websites or when I need multiple logins on one website. As for Opera I can’t really care for it at all. While Firefox is the slowest of all the browsers I like it due to the add-ons and the possibility to hack a lot of settings to suit my needs. Just by typing about:config you’ll get access to customize Firefox’s core settings. Of course this doesn’t come without a proper warning from Firefox. That warning says it all, hack and tweak Read more »

Microsoft forced to offer Europeans choice of browsers

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Microsoft forced to offer Europeans choice of browsers

From today, millions of Europeans who use Windows will be given the choice of whether to switch their default browser from Internet Explorer to one of eleven others. It follows a lengthy legal battle in Europe which has seen Microsoft accused of anti-competitive behaviour because it bundles Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system. This means that many computer users don’t realise there are alternative browsers available — amusing given that many users don’t really appreciate what a ‘browser’ really is. Us geeks have been switching in droves to alternatives such as Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome, but most ‘standard’ users have stuck with IE out of ignorance. It’s interesting Read more »

Browser wars: Firefox 3.5 beats Internet Explorer 7

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Browser wars: Firefox 3.5 beats Internet Explorer 7

We know that Firefox’s market share has been steadily increasing, but an interesting statistic from a leading web stats company (StatCounter) shows that Firefox 3.5 has overtaken Internet Explorer 7 for the first time. Results vary from continent to continent, with Firefox being a lot more popular in Europe than North America, for example. The complete Internet Explorer collection still significantly outranks Firefox. IE6 alone is still in use by nearly one in six users. I decided to take a look at a couple of our websites. Firstly, Forever Geek, which you’d expect to be frequented by a more tech-savvy crowd, confirmed my belief. Last month, Firefox overall had 50% Read more »

Happy 5th Birthday, Mozilla Firefox!

by Noemi Twigg
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Happy 5th Birthday, Mozilla Firefox!

Can you believe it? It’s been five years since this awesome Internet browser was first launched! I still remember using it for the first time – a couple of months after it was released – and vowing to myself that I would never use Internet Explorer again. Yes, that vow has been kept conscientiously; and I am willing to bet an arm and a leg that a lot of you have been thanking the powers that be for Firefox as well! Read more »

Awesome Halloween Pumpkin Carvings For Geeks

by Noemi Twigg
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Awesome Halloween Pumpkin Carvings For Geeks

Who said geeks don’t celebrate Halloween? I am willing to bet a month’s salary (not much, I have to admit) that there will be countless Spocks, Darth Vaders, and other similar characters at parties this weekend. But have you ever thought of carving that pumpkin based on the current social media trends? I honestly haven’t, but the guys at Mashable did an excellent job featuring 12 of the coolest social media pumpkin carvings for Halloween. You should check the full article out, but here’s a tiny glimpse of what’s in store for you. Needless to say, they’re the ones that made my blood flow more quickly. Read more »

Should Firefox add multitouch support?

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Should Firefox add multitouch support?

There’s an interesting set of diagrams and discussion over at the Mozilla Wiki about adding multitouch and gesturing to Firefox. It doesn’t mention what this is in response to — Apple MacBook multitouch trackpad, perhaps, or the increasing number of mobile devices with touchscreens — but of course it is dependent on associated hardware to work correctly. Read more »

Internet Explorer 6 still hanging out in the wild

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Internet Explorer 6 still hanging out in the wild

It’s a sorry state of affairs: Internet Explorer version 6x still has the largest market share of any web browser, with two in five users still using it. Internet Explorer 7x is close behind, with Firefox version 3 claiming one in ten users and the rest straggling behind. It’s news that’s sure to wind up web developers, like those behind the Kill IE6 project. Read more »

Firefox Quick Tip: When downloads stop working…

by Tiago
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Firefox Quick Tip: When downloads stop working…

Sometimes Firefox freaks out and for no reason at all, the downloads (Ctrl + J) stop working and it doesn’t allow you to download anything while using the browser. Be it a simple image, or an email attachment – nothing can be done. This problem has happened to me before, and the solution to get the downloads working again (in my case) was very easy – just had to delete one file, the “downloads.rdf” to be more specific, that is suppose to be located in the Profile folder of Firefox. There might be other solutions to solve the “downloads in Firefox problem” – check this page on the Mozilla Knowledge Read more »

Recently Closed Tabs Feature on FireFox 2

by J. Angelo Racoma
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Recently Closed Tabs Feature on FireFox 2

Here’s a nifty feature I recently discovered on FireFox 2: Recently Closed Tabs. It’s good that it has been standard for FireFox to warn you if you’re closing multiple tabs. After all, Control-Q (or CMD-Q for the Mac) is dangerously close to Control-W (or CMD-W). I’ve fallen victim to this mistake many a time with Safari, as it gives no warning when closing windows with multiple tabs. But neither browser warns you when you close a single tab. I’ve fallen victim to mistaken middle-clicking on FireFox myself many times, which closes a tab. You can access the recently closed tabs list under the History menu. It gives you the option Read more »

Firefox Optimization Tips

by jeremy
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Really more for those that may be new to Firefox, CNet has posted an article with 10 tips for helping to keep Firefox running lean and mean. Everybody who’s experienced the fun of customizing Firefox to his or her liking has a favorite extension. Whether it’s the improved navigation and session-saving friendliness of TabMixPlus or the convenience of All-in-One Sidebar, I can’t imagine living without some of them. It’s empowering to tweak your browser as you see fit, but the price often comes in the form of slower performance and memory hogging. Though Firefox has long been accused of leaking memory, there are simple ways to reduce RAM usage and Read more »