gHacks technology news » firefox bug http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Fix For Auto-Collapsing Bookmark Items In Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/26/fix-for-auto-collapsing-bookmark-items-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/26/fix-for-auto-collapsing-bookmark-items-in-firefox/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:05:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14781 firefoxI’m not sure when the problem started but it was after one of the last Firefox updates. I have placed several bookmark folders and bookmarks in the Firefox toolbar that contains the address bar and menu as well. This is actually the only toolbar that is displayed in my version of Firefox unless you count the tabbar as a toolbar as well. The bookmark folders were displayed on the right end of the toolbar before the problem started and started to disappear beyond that after the update.

The bookmark folders and bookmarks were auto-collapsed and only a down arrow was shown at the right end of the toolbar that could be clicked on to access all the bookmarks that were placed in the Firefox toolbar.

The bookmarks would sometimes appear and shortly thereafter disappear again but were auto-collapsed for the majority of time. This changed once I discovered that it was an unfixed bug in the Firefox web browser that was causing the auto-collapsing. An add-on was published shortly thereafter that fixed the bug. After installing the add-on the bookmark folders would again appear on the toolbar and not auto-collapsed on the right side of it.

Users who experience a similar problem can install the add-on which will take care of the bug immediately. The bug fix is provided by the same developer who also created an add-on to disable the new tab tearing feature in Firefox that could accidentally create new browser windows.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/26/fix-for-auto-collapsing-bookmark-items-in-firefox/feed/ 5 Mouse Cursor Disappearing Frequently In Firefox, Internet Explorer And Opera http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/10/mouse-cursor-disappearing-frequently-in-firefox-internet-explorer-and-opera/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/10/mouse-cursor-disappearing-frequently-in-firefox-internet-explorer-and-opera/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:14:44 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14293 flickr file synchronization softwareRoman send me an email yesterday about a problem that he researched the other day. He noticed that the mouse cursor in every Firefox tab was disappearing and appearing again with no apparent reason for this behavior. The strange thing was that all tabs were affected, not only one where the webmaster might have played around with Javascript or other scripts. Roman discovered that the disappearing mouse cursor was caused by the Flickr video script.

Users who want to test it can visit the Drupal User Experience website and start playing the first video on the page. They will notice that the cursor will start to disappear for short intervals on all tabs that are open in Firefox. Tests with other web browsers revealed that some show like Opera and Internet Explorer show the same behavior while others like the Google browser Google Chrome seems to be immune and show the cursor all the time.

The problem persists even after stopping the playback of the video in question. One solution is to close the tab that contains the website with the Flickr video which stopped the mouse cursor from disappearing in Firefox. Another solution offered by Roman was to block the Flickr video script with the Firefox add-on NoScript.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/10/mouse-cursor-disappearing-frequently-in-firefox-internet-explorer-and-opera/feed/ 0 New Firefox 2.0.0.11 is ready for download http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/30/new-firefox-20011-is-ready-for-download/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/30/new-firefox-20011-is-ready-for-download/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:26:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/30/new-firefox-20011-is-ready-for-download/ The Mozilla Firefox team has released Firefox 2.0.0.10 just two days ago but a bug discovered after the release prompted them to take immediate action. The bug is affecting an important HTML element interface which makes some extensions and websites unusable with that version of Firefox.

The new Firefox version got rid of that bug and is currently distributed to all primary and secondary mirror sites. Users affected by this bug might want to download the version as early as possible which is why I take the liberty to post a working download mirror of the new Firefox version.

The Oregon primary mirror site contains the new release, at least the Firefox 2.0.0.11 Win32 US release, which can be downloaded and installed without problems. Other mirrors will follow soon after and I expect to see the announcement on the official Mozilla website later today.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/30/new-firefox-20011-is-ready-for-download/feed/ 1 Firefox 2.0.0.6 has been released http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/31/firefox-2006-has-been-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/31/firefox-2006-has-been-released/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:56:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/31/firefox-2006-has-been-released/ It seems like only a few days since Firefox was updated to version 2.0.0.5 but the ever busy development team had to release the new version earlier because of a recently discovered bug in the Windows version of Firefox. The new version is already available on the Mozilla homepage and the automatic update routine is also reporting version 2.0.0.6 as the latest version already.

The new version is fixing one critical and one moderate security vulnerability that I listed below for your convenience. Make sure you update to Firefox 2.0.0.6 as soon as possible.

MFSA 2007-27 Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
MFSA 2007-26 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows

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