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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Mozilla Weave Synchronizes Firefox Data Online

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Uncategorized, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Firefox 2.0.0.15 released

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Uncategorized, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 28th, 2008
  • Comments: 13

Fix Choppy Scrolling in Firefox

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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Uncategorized, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Firefox is phoning home once a day

Firefox and Thunderbird are phoning home every 24 hours regardless if update notifications have been disabled in both applications. This caused some stir yesterday when a post made the Reddit (thanks Ryan) frontpage that informed users about this. Firefox and Thunderbird are apparently contacting a Mozilla server transmitting information about the IP address, the time, [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Change Firefox 3 Full Screen Mode

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. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Uncategorized, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: 11

My Firefox 3 Switching Experience

Daniel told everyone yesterday why he would wait another month or so before he would make the switch from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 and I thought I share my Firefox 3 switching experience with everyone. I downloaded Firefox 3 on download day and installed it directly on my system. Bookmarks and RSS Feeds were [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 36

Firefox 3 Final out!

Firefox 3 final has been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site just a minute ago and everyone can already download the client if they do not want to wait for the official announcement on the Mozilla website and the “world-record” website. As usual it is available for all supported operating systems and languages which means [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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