Apr 04 2015
Here’s a quick tip that not only helps you maintain some privacy but may also increase browsing speed in Firefox as well. Recently introduced into Mozilla Firefox, there is a disabled capability which will be enabled in Firefox 39 (we’re on Firefox 36.0.5 at the time of writing). This functionality blocks all of those invisible …
Oct 05 2013
Here’s a quick tip. If you’re using the nightly release of Firefox then you’ll be up to Firefox 27 but you may not have realised that a new feature has slipped into the build. Mozilla has managed to build something called Shumway that renders SWF files in HTML5 removing the need for Flash to be …
Jul 06 2013
For a while now I have used Google Chrome as my primary browser after growing tired of Firefox consuming gigabytes of memory per session and doing little to free memory apart from when you closed and reopened it. Apparently, Mozilla has made great strides to get memory management under control so I am doing to …
Dec 27 2012
Here’s a very quick tip for today. If you’re a power user and you don’t fancy wielding the mouse to switch between browser tabs then you might prefer to use Ctrl + Tab instead to move to the next tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to go to the previous tab. This works in all of …
Apr 30 2012
If you’re still all the way back on Firefox 3.6 (while the latest version is now Firefox 12) you might want to read about how will be affected next month. In a nutshell, Firefox 3.6 is pretty long in the tooth (over two years old which is a while in the web browser industry considering …
Feb 06 2012
Here’s something to keep in mind when using Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7. For a while now, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have possessed auto-update capabilities (Firefox being more explicit about it while Chrome silently updates itself in the background and applies the changes when it is restarted with nary a peep). …
Jan 15 2012
For a lot of people using Windows the Twitter client of choice is TweetDeck however it can be a problem to get running if you are unable to install Adobe Air on the computer (which is often the case in corporate or enterprise environments). Otherwise, if you are staunchly against installing Adobe Air on your computer …
Jan 14 2012
Here’s something that I encountered this week when attempting to update my installation of Firefox (again, the updates seem incredibly frequent now). I repeatedly encountered the following error when trying to load Firefox after the upgrade: Your computer must be rebooted to complete a previous upgrade of Firefox. Do you want to reboot now? Even …
Sep 15 2011
Another quick tip for tonight. If you are close to the bleeding edge when it comes to the Firefox browser without being on the nightly releases you’ll be on the Aurora channel. This update channel only releases the most recent build that works (somewhat) compared to some nightly builds that might not work at all. …
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