How to remove "search with" and "visit" in Firefox's address bar
The Firefox web browser displays a "search with" or "visit" entry as the first suggestion whenever you type something in Firefox's address bar.
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Mozilla launches multi-process test in Firefox Beta
Electrolysis, or multi-process Firefox, is without doubt one of the biggest projects ever for the Firefox development team.
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This is Firefox's new Profile Manager
Firefox user profiles are a mighty tool that most users of the browser probably never come into contact with.
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What you do when Firefox disables installed add-ons
There is a lot of buzz surrounding Tuesday's Firefox 43 release, and here specifically the enforcement of add-on signing for the first time in the stable versio
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How to restore classic search in Firefox
Mozilla changed the classic search interface in Firefox 34 significantly by implementing a new search bar UI.
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Firefox 43: Find out what is new
Firefox 43's official release data is December 15, 2015.
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Firefox Addon Detector identifies installed Firefox add-ons
Firefox Addon Detector is a web service that reveals if Firefox users connecting to the service have specific Firefox add-ons installed.
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An analysis of local caches that Firefox uses
Back in the early days of the Internet, there was just a single cache for HTML files and static elements such as images but with the rise of HTML5 and modern we
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Mozilla will ship Rust code and Servo components in Firefox in 2016
2016 will be an important year for Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser and proponent of an open Web.
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Mozilla puts the brakes on Firefox OS project
Mozilla announced a moment ago that it made the decision to stop offering "Firefox OS smartphones" to carrier channels.
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Firefox Hello is the first system add-on for Firefox
The most recent Nightly versions of the Firefox web browser ship with the first system add-on released for the browser.
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Firefox Profilemaker: modify Firefox settings on the Web
Firefox Profilemaker is an online tool that enables you to make configuration changes to Firefox by exporting those changes either to a Firefox profile or savin
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Firefox Hello: Contacts to be removed, Tab Sharing on by default
Major changes are coming to Firefox Hello, the built-in video-, audio- and text chat service of the Firefox web browser.
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Mozilla has a revenue share agreement with Pocket
When Mozilla announced the native integration of the "read-it-later" service Pocket in Firefox, rumors that Mozilla must have received money by Pocket for the i
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Mozilla drops Sponsored Tile advertisement in Firefox
Mozilla's VP of Content Services Darren Herrman announced yesterday on the official Mozilla Blog that the organization made the decision to discontinue Sponsore
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Tab Groups add-on adds full tab grouping functionality to Firefox
Tab Groups is a brand new add-on for the Firefox web browser that replicates the functionality of Firefox's built-in tab grouping feature.
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How to find out if a Firefox add-on is signed
How do you know whether a Firefox add-on is signed or not? And what does it mean if it is signed?One could say that you find out as soon as you try […]
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Firefox's Tracking Protection feature gets a boost soon
Work on Firefox's Tracking Protection feature continues as Mozilla plans to give users more control over the feature by adding tracking groups to the system tha
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Pref Helper reveals preference names of Firefox options
Pref Helper is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that reveals preference names behind Firefox options.
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Firefox Electrolysis (multi-process) won't come out this year
Firefox Electrolysis, a new multi-process architecture of the browser also known as e10s, won't see a release in stable Firefox this year.
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Mozilla will do well financially without Google
When Mozilla announced a year ago that it would not renew the search deal it had with Google in favor of regional deals that would give the organization more fl
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Firefox Add-on Signing criticized for being ineffective
Mozilla announced back in the beginning of 2015 that it would require Firefox add-ons to be signed before they could be installed in release and beta versions o
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Firefox 64-bit to support Microsoft Silverlight after all
Mozilla launches a stable version of Firefox 64-bit for the Microsoft Windows operating system this month in silent fashion.
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New Tab Override 2.0 for Firefox: more New Tab Page changing options
Mozilla removed the native option to change the address that is opened when Firefox users open a new tab page in the browser in Firefox 41.
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NoScript Script Surrogates explained
This guide looks at NoScript's Script Surrogates functionality, explains how you can add or remove surrogates from the popular Firefox add-on, and explains what
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Decentraleyes for Firefox loads CDN resources locally
You can learn a lot about a site when you monitor its network connections when you connect your browser to it.
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Simplified Tab Groups add-on for Firefox resurrects soon-to-be-removed Panorama feature
Simplified Tab Groups is a brand new add-on for the Firefox web browser that aims to provide Firefox Panorama / Tab Groups users with a replacement for the nati
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Google search options on Firefox mobile limited in comparison to Chrome
If you compare the search results, or more precisely search options, that you get when using Google Search on mobile devices using Firefox and Chrome, you will
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How to hide multiple rows of tabs in Tab Mix Plus
One interesting feature of the excellent Firefox add-on Tab Mix Plus is the ability to display tabs in multiple rows on the screen.
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Fox Web Security add-on for Firefox
Fox Web Security is a neglected add-on for the Firefox web browser that blocks or allows connections to websites based on blocklist information of the three DNS
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Mozilla clarifies what the removal of full themes actually means
Mozilla announced last Friday that it plans to remove heavyweight theme support from the Firefox web browser in a bug listing on the organization's official bug
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Happy Birthday Firefox! Tell Mozilla what you think of Firefox
I don't remember when I switched from using Opera to Firefox, but it must have been around the time the browser appeared on the scene.
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How to disable the Firefox Saved Telemetry Pings and archive folder
Saved Telemetry Pings and datareporting/archived are two local folders in the Firefox profile that the browser started to populate with data recently.
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Good News, Pocket to become a Firefox add-on once again (sort of)
After delivering bad news in form of two Firefox feature deprecations -- Tab Groups and Full Theme support will be removed from Firefox -- Mozilla is also worki
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Mozilla to remove Tab Groups (Panorama) in Firefox 45
After making it clear that full theme support will be discontinued in Firefox, Mozilla announced that it will remove another feature from the browser.
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Mozilla plans to remove support for heavyweight themes in Firefox
Mozilla announced yesterday that it plans to remove heavyweight theme support from Firefox as part of the organization's great or dead initiative.
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Better Reader improves Firefox's Reader Mode
Reader Mode, initially launched for Firefox on Android in 2012, landed in the beginning of this year on Firefox for the desktop.
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Firefox's new security icons and the reasoning behind the change
If you have upgraded your version of Firefox to 42, you may have noticed a change affecting the security icons displayed by the browser to indicate secure conne
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Everything you need to know about Push notifications in Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and other modern browsers will support so-called push notifications on the desktop in the near future or are already supporting i
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Firefox 42: Find out what is new
Firefox 42 will be unveiled officially on November 3, 2015 by Mozilla.
