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Noia 4 update makes it one of the first Firefox Australis compatible full themes

If you do not like where Mozilla is headed with Firefox's interface re-design Australis, you have a couple of options at hand to resolve it. Some users may keep on using the […]

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Mozilla plans tour to guide Firefox users when Australis comes around

The Firefox Australis re-design will land on April 29th in the stable channel of the web browser if last-minute bugs do not prevent this from happening. No matter how you feel about […]

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Firefox's Holly Branch, a temporary escape from Australis

I apologize for the increase in Firefox Australis related posts in the last couple of weeks. Since I'm affected by the new user interface, I want to make sure that I cover […]

Here is what will happen when Mozilla launches Australis for Firefox

If you are a regular here on the site you know what Australis is. It is a visual refresh of the Firefox web browser, and while that sounds like a good idea, […]

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How to restore Firefox sessions if Session Restore is not working correctly

Session Restore is a useful feature in Firefox that remembers certain information about your previous browsing session so that you can continue work right where you left off the last time. The […]

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What's the best Firefox or Opera browser alternative?

One of Google Chrome's major weaknesses or shortcomings is the browser's lack of user interface customization options. It is a take it or leave it interface that is giving users no options […]

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How to disable Java in your web browser

Update: Most web browsers don't support Java anymore. Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge don't support Java anymore and that means that you don't have to disable Java in the browser even […]

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Today's Web Browser Landscape

The web browser landscape has changed considerably in recent years. Especially the introduction of the Google browser has shuffled around the landscape quite a bit. On today's Internet, there are five major […]

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What Is the Process plugin-container.exe?

Firefox users with eagle eyes might have spotted a new process (or two) that pops up from time to time when they are running the web browser. The process plugin-container.exe appears and […]

Ubiquity to be built in to Firefox

If you're into browsers, browser tech and mashups, chances are you know what Mozilla's Ubiquity is. In a nutshell, it's a mashup service which lets you navigate and manipulate the web in […]

Find Software Alternatives with Alternative.to

Alternative To is an interesting web service that suggests software alternatives for software and services on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux operating systems plus online services. Alternatives to software programs or […]

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Play Commodore 64 games Online

The c-64 was my first computer. I had an atari 2600 before and it seemed like a quantum leep at that time. The C-64 had many classic games that I enjoyed playing: Archon, Boulder Dash and Pirates for instance. You know have the chance to play some of the alltime classics of that era in your browser. The website c64s.com is the Eldorado for everyone who wants to play that classic games again or take a look at games of a time long forgotten.

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Please Mozilla, don't touch the user.js functionality in Firefox

A bug report opened about nine months ago on Mozilla's Bugzilla bug tracking site for Firefox suggests that the organization could disable reading the user.js file of the Firefox browser by default […]

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Classic Firefox and Firefox fork launcher

Menu_Launcher4multiple_FF is a free batch file for Windows to run different Firefox versions and forks using a shared user profile or different profiles. Internet users have plenty of options when it comes […]

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Here we go again: Spectre 1.1 and 1.2 vulnerabilities discovered

Anyone still keeping track of all the Spectre-based vulnerabilities that were revealed to the public in 2018? We published numerous articles on the topic already, and there is certainly some fatigue involved […]

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Ghacks user.js goes github

When Pants approached me in 2015 about publishing his Firefox user.js configuration file on Ghacks, I never imagined how far the project would come. Now, 20 months later, the project has made […]

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A comprehensive list of Firefox privacy and security settings

Mozilla Firefox is without doubt the web browser that gives the most control to users in regards to privacy and security. Firefox users find some of those options listed in the graphical […]

Light is a slimmed down Firefox third-party build optimized for performance

I have updated the custom Firefox build list today and stumbled upon a new third-party build that I had not heard about before. Light is a third-party build of Firefox much like […]

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Change Default Browser, Quickly Switch The Default System Browser

One web browser is always the default system browser on a computer system. That's the program that is launched when you click on links for example or any other file type that […]

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Firefox Plumber, Drop Firefox Memory Usage

One of the main points of criticism of Firefox users is the memory usage of the web browser. While I personally think that it has gotten a lot better with recent browser […]

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Firefox Custom Builds

Custom builds of the Firefox web browser are created by third-parties. They usually optimize Firefox (compiler and code), and sometimes add new features to the web browser, or even remove features from […]

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Skype Emoticons

Did you know that there are more emoticons accessible in Skype than the 56 that are displayed during chats ? I'm not sure why those additional ones have not been included in the menu where you can choose the emoticons. The only way to add them to your text would be to enter them manually.