We take for granted these days that Microsoft will always provide new versions of Windows and Windows Server, that Google will always provide world-leading search and that many other companies will just be there for us in perpetuity.  After all, look at the big names like Coca Cola, Ford and and more that have been with [...]

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The Stop Online Piracy Act in the US is getting ever more publicity with GoDaddy one of the high profile companies to suffer from supporting it as we wrote a couple of days ago.  In our previous article Martin summed up SOPA very effectively. If you are living in the United States, you should have [...]

Categories: Online Services

You may already know about Mozilla’s plan to retire the built-in Firefox profile manager to replace it with an external program called the Profile Manager. This new program, available for all supported operating systems that Firefox runs on is not only compatible with the web browser but also with other XULRunner-based applications like Mozilla Thunderbird [...]

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Life over at Mozilla is surely not as easy-peasy anymore than it was a year or two ago. With Chrome breathing down the browser’s neck and Microsoft getting their act together it has become a tough playing field. The rapid release process should have changed it all, and for the better. Bad news however seem [...]

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Mozilla has made the decision to add McAfee’s ScriptScan add-on for the Firefox web browser to the so called Blocklist. The Blocklist lists add-ons and plugins that are known to “cause serious security, stability, or performance issues with Firefox”. When users try to open the McAfee ScriptScan or McAfee SiteAdvisor page at the official Mozilla [...]

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One of the issues that I hear over and over again when I talk with other Firefox users about the rapid release process is that users are tired of updating the browser every six weeks, and especially so if the update turns out to be another “under-the-hood” update where no changes can be spotted right [...]

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If you follow this tech blog closely you know already that the latest release of Firefox, which would be Firefox 7.0, contained a bug that hid away some or even all add-ons of a user who updated a version of the browser to the latest stable iteration. Mozilla after noticing the problem stopped the distribution [...]

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I visit the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository on a daily basis, mainly to see if add-ons have been updated or released that I can review or use on my own. Mozilla recently redesigned the add-on repository which in my opinion is not as intuitive as before. When you open the new homepage you will see [...]

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Firefox users who have went along with the update process from Firefox 4 to now Firefox 6 stable were in for a big disappointment as the new versions were not really offering any new features or visible speed improvements. That’s without doubt one of the issues that led to criticism of the rapid release process. [...]

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