Kirk M on July 2nd, 2009

Firefox 3.5 was released to the masses on June 30th and as usual certain extensions have since come up as incompatible. And as usual the Mozilla blame game is afoot with a number of Firefox users complaining that one or more of the 30 (more or less) extensions they have installed are no longer [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 23rd, 2009

Mozilla has stopped all updates and Google turned off all further phishing protection support for Firefox 2 as of January 20th. Time to upgrade if you haven’t already. Read more »

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Kirk M on November 13th, 2008

Quite some time ago I wrote up a post concerning a “fix” for Firefox 3.0 that involved setting “browser.cache.memory.enable” to “False” in “about.config” (Firefox’s options editing dialog). This “fix” solved the ongoing problem with Firefox 3.0.* causing unacceptably high CPU usage when a page was loaded into a foreground tab. A problem which not [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on August 11th, 2008

When it comes to fast browsers, Firefox 3.0.* tops them all but hold up…it has competition coming and that competition comes in the form of none other than Firefox 3.1, due near the end of the year.
When the folks at Mozilla first started work on Firefox 3.0 and began releasing the nightly builds thereof I [...] Read more »

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Firefox 3.1, which is scheduled to ship before the end on the year, will incorporate new ways to filter the results shown in the Smart Location Bar’s drop down list. Something that many Firefox 3.0.x users are looking forward to having. One of the reasons that this could not be done in time for the [...] Read more »

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