Everyone who has to work on multiple computers knows that it can be extremely hard to have the same data available on all of the computers where it is needed. If you take Firefox as an example you might miss your bookmarks, settings and stored passwords on another computer and it would be pretty convenient to have access to them there as well.

I use Moz Backup for Firefox to backup my data and import it to my Toshiba Notebook that I use when I’m traveling. Mozilla Weave is using a slightly different approach that automates the process further. It provides an online storage for Firefox 3 profile data that can be used on any computer connecting if the correct user data is provided.

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Good news for those users who prefer to stick with Firefox 2 for now. Their browser was updated to version 2.0.0.15 today and it is recommended to update Firefox 2 as soon as possible. The update is a security and stability update which should be available right now from the official download page.

That page is unfortunately down at the moment as are the release notes for that new version. Not exactly sure what’s going on currently because the main pages and the developer news website with the announcement is reachable. The update can also be installed by checking for updates in Firefox 2. This can be done in the HELP menu.

The website is working again. The direct download link and the release notes are now accessible. The update fixed four critical, four high, 2 moderate and 2 low security vulnerabilities. Make sure to update asap.

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My Last Search is a Nirsoft application that scans the computer for information about searches that have been done in the two popular browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. This is done by scanning Internet caches and history files of the two browsers for specific search engine queries and displaying those queries in tables.

The software worked fine during my tests in combination with Internet Explorer but failed to deliver data from Firefox. I only had to refresh the application to display Internet Explorer searches but the same method did not work with Firefox searches. The homepage does mention that Firefox 3 is supported and I’m a bit puzzled why it would not work.

Searches are displayed with various information in the table like search string, search engine, time of search and browser that has been used to search.

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One of my readers - Sammy - sent me an email just a few minutes ago that told me of a problem that several Firefox 3 users were having when scrolling websites with large fixed background images. The scrolling was choppy, example sites where this occurred can be found here, here and here. If you are one of the unfortunate with that issue you can fix it quite easily.

The solution was first posted by Alwyn on Deviant Art. All that needs to be done is to add a line of code to the Firefox userContent.css in the chrome folder. Check the official Mozilla website that explains how to find that folder in various operating systems.

Once located open the file in a text editor and paste the following lines at the end of it. If you do not have a file that is named userContent.css yet but one that is named userContent-example.css remove the -example part of the file first and add the lines afterward. Firefox 3 has to be closed for this.

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I’m normally not using the full screen mode in Firefox because I have a large enough Samsung LCD monitor that displays most websites just fine. Lifehacker discovered that Firefox 3 changed the display of the full screen mode. If you remember Firefox 2 still displayed the tab bar and location bar in full screen mode. Firefox 3 changes this behavior and hides everything. Yes, that is right, there is no bar visible on top when Firefox 3 enters full screen mode and even the status bar moves to a hiding place while in that mode.

There are probably some users who prefer the old ways and Mozilla Links posted a nice quick about:config fix that is bringing back the full screen mode of Firefox 2.

To change the Firefox 3 full screen mode type about:config in your location bar and filter for the parameter browser.fullscreen.autohide. Change the value of that parameter to False to change the full screen mode so that the tab bar is displayed as well.

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