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Monthly Archives: May 2011

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Disable Addon Compatibility Checking Fx 7

Posted on May 31, 2025 by The Guru
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I mentioned in the Add-on Compatibility Reporter post, I had installed Firefox 7 Nightly but was having trouble getting the addon comparability ‘safe-guard’ turned off via an about:config tweak as I had in the past for other developmental builds. Girish … Continue reading →

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Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Firefox, General Mozilla | 1 Reply

Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware

Posted on May 31, 2025 by gareon
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Purveyors of fake security software don’t let much grass grow under their feet and continually make improvements to their social engineering lures. While most of the talk for the past month has been their move to Mac with fake Finder … Continue reading →

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Posted in Browsers, General Mozilla, Other, Security | Leave a reply

Clear Cache & Cookies - The Easy Way

Posted on May 31, 2025 by The Guru
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One question I tend to get a lot is ‘How Do I Clear My Cache and Cookies in Firefox?‘. I will give Microsoft kudos for making this process fairly simple (three steps) in Internet Explorer 9. Mozilla, on the other … Continue reading →

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Posted in Firefox, IE, Microsoft, Tips & Tweaks, Windows, Windows 7 | 7 Replies

about:permissions

Posted on May 28, 2025 by The Guru
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Note: This feature is currently only available on Firefox 6 Aurora (6.0a2). A new feature coming in Firefox 6 (scheduled for release on August 16th) is a about:permissions. About:permissions, like about:config, add-ons, and just about every aspect of Firefox, is … Continue reading →

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Posted in Firefox, General Mozilla | 2 Replies

Firefox Release Recap: May 2011 Week 4

Posted on May 28, 2025 by The Guru
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Just Released Firefox 6.0a2 (Aurora) - May 24th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.18 - June 21st Firefox 5 Final Release - June 21st Firefox 5 for Mobile Final Release - June 21st Firefox 6 Beta - … Continue reading →

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Add-on Compatibility Reporter

Posted on May 28, 2025 by The Guru
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I decided to take a look at the new Nightly builds for Firefox 7. I created a duplicate of my main profile using the ProfileManager. Everything was going smoothly until Firefox ran the compatibility check on my add-ons. All except … Continue reading →

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Posted in General Mozilla | 6 Replies

Firefox 6.0a2 (Aurora) now Available

Posted on May 27, 2025 by The Guru
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Firefox 6 moved from the Nightly to the Aurora channel on May 24th. The Aurora build is a developer’s preview which will allow testers and extension developers to see and work with the new features in Firefox 6. All new … Continue reading →

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Adventures with HDMI Part 2

Posted on May 26, 2025 by The Guru
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Everything seems to be working fine now. However, every time I restarted Windows my speakers would be disabled. Looking at Playback Devices panel (right click on the speaker icon on the Windows 7 Taskbar and select Playback Devices) I noticed … Continue reading →

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Adventures with HDMI, AMD & ATI

Posted on May 24, 2025 by The Guru
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I am posting this in hopes it will save someone else from the hours of frustration and viewing countless discussion forums on how to fix this fairly simple problem. In my home office I have two separate computer systems one … Continue reading →

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Posted in Computer/Internet, General | 3 Replies

Firefox Release Recap: May 2011 Week 3

Posted on May 21, 2025 by The Guru
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Just Released Firefox 5 Beta - May 20th Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 6 Aurora - May 24th to 31st* Future Releases Firefox 3.6.18 - June 21st Firefox 5 Final Release - June 21st Firefox 6 Beta - July 4th … Continue reading →

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