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Firefox - Latest Posts
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Firefox Location Bar Mastery
Second part in the Back To Basics series.
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Firelux brings f.lux functionality to Firefox
Firelux is a brand new add-on for the Firefox web browser that brings f.
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Firefox 47: Tab-based temporary user agent switching
Firefox 47 ships with a new feature that enables you to change the user agent on individual tabs temporarily.
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The Future of Pale Moon
Pale Moon is a web browser that you find recommended fairly often here on Ghacks, especially in the comment section as an alternative to Mozilla Firefox.
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Mozilla: WebExtensions are great for developers
Mozilla revealed in a new blog post on the official Addons blog why Webextensions, a new API for Firefox add-on developers, are advantageous to the development
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CloudHole: make CloudFlare's I'm not a robot captchas appear less often
One of the disadvantages of connecting to a VPN or Tor is the dreaded "I'm not a robot" message that you get on every site you visit that uses CloudFlare.
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Firefox 45: Find out what is new
Firefox 45 has been released on March 8, 2016 to the stable channel.
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Narrate: Firefox Reader Mode gets Text to Speech
Narrate is a new feature of the Firefox web browser that adds text to speech capabilities to the web browser's Reader Mode.
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Firefox Tab Mastery
First part in the Back To Basics series.
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Who knows what is going on at Mozilla?
As a passionate Firefox user who values that browser more than any other currently on the market, I have seen Mozilla make a number of bad decisions in the past
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Optimal Access reenvisions Tab Groups in Firefox
Optimal Access is a new add-on for the Firefox web browser that reenvisions how Tab Groups work in the browser.
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Firefox Add-on YouTube Unblocker blocked by Mozilla
Mozilla banned the popular Firefox add-on YouTube Unblocker yesterday after it was confirmed that it tampers with Firefox security preferences, and downloads an
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Clean Uninstall: remove add-on preferences on removal
Clean Uninstall is a brand new browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that provides you with options to remove add-on preferences from extensions that you u
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Ghostery 6.0 for Firefox released
Ghostery 6.
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Flash Replacement Shumway is as good as dead
Mozilla started to work on Shumway, an open source Flash environment that did not depend on proprietary software back in 2012.
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Firefox Crashed? Let's Analyze That!
The Firefox web browser, just like any other program, may crash which usually means that the program is terminated forcefully.
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This is the new addons.mozilla.org style that will go live soon
Mozilla plans to release a new style for addons.
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Change how many processes multi-process Firefox uses
Mozilla added support for multiple content processes in Firefox 54 Stable.
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Firefox: Mockups show Activity Stream, New Tab Page and Share updates
Three new mockups for the Firefox web browser reveal how the browser's New Tab Page, Share functionality and Activity Stream (browsing history and bookmarks) co
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Multi-process Firefox's will use up to 20% more RAM initially
Multi-process Firefox's memory use will increase between 10% to 20% initially on average according to a memory test Mozilla ran recently.
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Tampermonkey for Firefox released
The author of Tampermonkey, a popular script loader for Chromium-based web browsers, has released a beta port of the add-on for the Firefox web browser.
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Firefox 44:"Ask me every time" cookie option removed
Mozilla removed one of the available cookie control options in Firefox 44 effectively disabling the option for users to decide what to do with cookies that site
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Firefox gets a variable release schedule
Mozilla announced a change to the release schedule of the Firefox web browser that moves it from a six-week interval to a variable interval.
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Firefox 47: Synced Tabs Sidebar
Synced Tabs is a new feature that is planned for Firefox 47 that will display tabs from other devices connected to a Firefox Sync Account in the browser's sideb
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Mozilla experiments with a combined Firefox address and search field
Mozilla runs an experiment currently in which some of the participating Firefox users see a unified address bar and search bar in the browser.
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Firefox 44: Find out what is new
The official release data of Firefox 44 is January 26, 2016.
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Puzzle Bars: Get more control over Firefox icons
Puzzle Bars is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds several icon control options to the browser improving how you access browser-specific and add
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Enhance Firefox Cookie Management with these add-ons
While most Internet users know about cookies, as word about their tracking capabilities have even reached mainstream news, only a minority seems to do use add-o
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Firefox to convert old YouTube Flash code to HTML5 Video
Mozilla has added a feature to Firefox 46 that will convert old YouTube Flash code to HTML5 Video automatically under certain circumstances.
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Mozilla to remove WebRT from Firefox
Mozilla plans to remote WebRT (WebRuntime) from Firefox for the desktop and for Android.
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Surprise? 40% of Firefox users don't use add-ons
Apart from giving its users more control over its features than any other web browser out there, another strength of Firefox is the browser's add-on system.
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The Ghacks user.js Firefox privacy and security list has been updated
We released a privacy and security settings list for the Firefox web browser back in August 2015.
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Mozilla enables W^X in Firefox 46 to improve security
Mozilla enabled the security feature W^X in Firefox Nightly (currently version 46) and plans to make it available to other versions of its web browser once they
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Pocket lands as Firefox's second System Add-on
Mozilla plans to release the built-in Pocket integration of Firefox as a system add-on with Firefox 46.
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Mozilla to improve Firefox WebKit compatibility
WebKit-based browsers are a dominating force, especially in the mobile world where they are dominating the landscape but more and more also on the desktop.
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Delete Firefox's History automatically after set days
Expire history by days is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds a new option to the browser that enables you to have it clear the browser history
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Temporary add-on loading coming to Firefox
Andy McKay, Engineering Manager at Mozilla, announced yesterday on the official add-ons blog that Mozilla would implement temporary add-on loading in its Firefo
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The next 12 months will change Firefox's add-on landscape fundamentally
A lot is going on at Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox web browser.
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Firefox WebExtensions: Mozilla aims for Firefox 48
Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox web browser, aims to integrate the first stable release of WebExtensions in Firefox 48.
